“It was a time when fashion was permitted to walk hand in hand with piety. All the fashionable accomplishments were taught by experts at {{w|Reading Abbey Girls' School#Hans Place, London and Frances Arabella Rowden|Mrs. Rowden's}}. Fanny's contralto voice was well trained. She acquired enough Italian to read '{{w|Inferno (Dante)|Inferno}},' a little Latin, even a little {{w|Greek language|Greek}}. Her Parisian accent soon became the envy of the other English girls ...”