22-432: Jane Arden may refer to: Jane Gardiner (1758–1840), née Arden, British schoolmistress and grammarian. Jane Arden (director) (1927–1982), British director and actor Jane Arden (actress) (born 1959), British actor Jane Arden (comics) , a daily newspaper comic strip which ran from 1927 to 1968 See also [ edit ] Arden (name) Topics referred to by
44-508: A biographical sketch and an extended description of her last illness and deathbed. The book was funded by subscription publishing , an early version of crowdfunding , and Everilda expressed surprise that almost 700 individuals had "subscribed" (pre-purchased) about 1400 copies. Elsham Hall Elsham Hall is a 17th-century English country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire . The park and gardens are open to
66-421: A carp lake, adventure playground and children's animal farm, and fantasy walled garden. The gardens include a large medieval carp lake, and a 19th-century coach house and stables, which is a Grade II listed building. The park and gardens were opened as a country park in 1970 by Captain and Mrs. Elwes "to promote enjoyment of the countryside and wildlife and an appreciation of the arts and rural crafts". It
88-487: A friend of her younger brother in 1797, and in 1800 they moved, with her pupils, to Elsham Hall , a country house near Elsham, North Lincolnshire . She continued managing her school for thirty more years after that. She accumulated a library for the benefit of her pupils, totalling 2800 volumes in English, French, and Italian. In 1814 the family and school moved to Ashby Hall. In 1836, its owner wanted to take occupancy of
110-803: A separated 1989 Elwes Trust took on Elsham Hall and its gardens. There were also a number of museums and arts charities founded by Capt Elwes, including the Lincolnshire Life Museum, various working windmills, including Wrawby Post Mill, and the St Hugh's Foundation that assists artists to travel overseas in Lincoln. Robert Elwes continued on the Yorkshire Tourist Board, Lincolnshire Tourism, Yorkshire Museums Council. Historic Houses Association, and various arts and tourism committees, winning several national awards. Gervase Elwes
132-625: A travelogue entitled An Excursion from London to Dover, in Two Volumes (1806), and another grammar called An Easy French Grammar (1808). Gardiner was a devout Christian. She read the Bible daily, in tandem with Scott's Commentary , and the Golden Treasury by Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky . Most of the diary entries reprinted by her daughter are taken up with religious reflections. One of her former pupils claimed that "out of no school
154-633: Is a full-time portrait painter following in the tradition of Sir Simon Elwes, who painted HM the Queen. They have two brothers, Hugh Elwes (banker) and Giles Elwes (TV producer), who live and work in the South of England. Elsham Estate is approximately 1000 hectares of mainly woodland and pasture land with a famous Lambing Sunday. It has a barn theatre restaurant built by Robert Elwes in 1989 that hosts classical music, mediaeval banquets and weddings. Elsham Hall Gardens are open to visitors (see Elsham Hall website) with
176-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jane Gardiner Jane Arden Gardiner (1758–1840 ) was a British schoolmistress and grammarian , and one of the earliest friends of Mary Wollstonecraft . Gardiner was the daughter of John Arden, a scholar and lecturer, who is best known as one of Mary Wollstonecraft ’s early teachers. His interests centred on natural philosophy (science) and belles lettres (literature); he taught his daughter in moments of leisure. Gardiner herself
198-618: Is open in Summer to visitors since 1970. Gervase Elwes lives at the Hall on the Elsham Estate. Robert Elwes lives at Sawcliffe Manor on the nearby Elwes Roxby Estate. The origins of Elsham Hall date from the 17th century or even earlier but in about 1760 major additions were made to the building. At this time the property was owned by William Thompson and his wife Elizabeth (née Gore). He died in 1764 and his son Robert Thompson inherited
220-653: The Elwes family in 1933. The house is a Grade II* listed building . The house includes a Catholic chapel dating from 1933, and an 18th-century stone staircase. Separate from the house, on its own alignment, is a fine 19th-century orangery , which is a grade II listed building in its own right. The house is not open to the public. It was inherited by Gervase Elwes and Robert Elwes from their father Captain Jeremy Elwes in 1999 and placed in an Elwes 1989 Children's Trust for their heirs in perpetuity. The Gardens and Park
242-532: The estate, so it is possible that it was he who made the additions. He died in 1788 and as he had no children he left the house to his niece Elizabeth Corbett. She was the daughter of Humphrey Edwin and Mary Thompson. She was born in 1739 and in 1755 married Thomas Corbett (1730–1808), of Darnhall Hall in Cheshire . When she inherited Elsham Hall, she brought the property to the Corbett family. From 1800 to 1814
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#1732791891562264-415: The house was occupied by Jane Gardiner , who ran a girls' boarding school there. When Thomas Corbett died, their eldest son inherited the estate and also took the additional name of Thompson, becoming William Thompson Corbett (1759–1832). In 1794 he had married Jane Eleanor Ainslie, the daughter of General George Ainslie . They had twelve children; their eldest son, Thomas George Corbett , inherited
286-403: The house, so aged 78, Gardiner gave up her school, and died four years later. Gardiner was the author of several educational texts. In 1799 she published her Young Ladies’ Grammar , an unusual grammar that used French as a model for English grammar. (for context, see History of English grammars .) In 1801 she published two accompanying volumes called English Exercises . She followed these with
308-569: The household of Lord Ilchester of Redlynch, Somerset . She was succeeded as governess to the Fox-Strangeways family by Agnes Porter , whose memoirs were reprinted in 1998. Gardiner opened a boarding school for girls in Beverley in 1784, which she directed by herself for thirteen years. This establishment provided a home for her aging parents and invalid younger sister. By this point she had reconciled herself to her fate: "I own that
330-621: The life of a governess would not have been my choice, but I am content." Not all governesses were oppressed and isolated; she says on a return visit that the Martin family treated her "more as a daughter than as an humble 'gouvernante'". She went with the Martins to Houghton Hall , then in the possession of Horace Walpole , admiring the famous collection of paintings there . She became acquainted with Nelson , and asked him to help improve her understanding of art. Her father died in 1791. She married
352-593: The property on the death of his father in 1894. In 1925 Sir Francis sold the Elsham estate to King's College, Cambridge as an investment. They sold the house in 1931 to the Elwes family, who still own the property. Captain Jeremy Elwes inherited the property from his Uncle Geoffrey Elwes after the Second World War and restored it with his wife Clare Elwes after occupation as the Antiaircraft HQ. It
374-527: The property. He married in 1837 Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk, daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans and his wife Maria nee Nelthorpe . They had one daughter, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, and she married in 1858 Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet . She inherited Elsham Hall in 1868 and so brought the house to the Astley family. Their eldest son also took the additional name of Corbett and so became Sir Francis Edmund George Astley-Corbett, 4th Baronet. He inherited
396-433: The public. The present house dates back to the 1760s, on the site of an earlier dwelling of which little is known. It is of brick construction, limestone ashlar on the main aspect and rendered elsewhere, and with a Westmoreland slate roof. The house was extended for the then owner, T G Corbett, in the 19th century, although most of the 19th-century service wing was demolished in the 20th. There were further enhancements by
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440-540: Was friends with Wollstonecraft: they lived near one another in Beverley for several years, and when the Wollstonecraft family moved away in 1774, the girls wrote letters to one another throughout their teens and early twenties. Gardiner began teaching early, leaving home in her mid-teens to take up a position as governess to the daughters of Lady Martin in north Norfolk . In 1780 she moved across England to
462-519: Was then passed to Robert and Gervase Elwes, who have turned it into a very successful tourism and wedding venue. Their two families have restored and developed the venue for future generations as a historic gardens open to visitors under the guidance of the Historic Houses Association. See below. When Captain Jeremy Elwes died in 1999, his sons Gervase and Robert Elwes inherited the main farms and estate in his 2002 Will Trust, but
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#1732791891562484-426: Was there ever sent forth a greater number of solidly educated christian women" This would have been about 600 young women, over the course of half a century. Gardiner named her daughter Everilda, the given name of her first employer, Lady Martin. This daughter wrote a somewhat hagiographic memoir of her mother, which this article draws on. It quotes extensively from letters received and diary entries, as well as giving
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