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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frances Rowden

1801 text book

Born Frances Arabella Rowden

1774

England

Died c. 1840 (aged around 66)

Nationality Great Britain

Other names Frances Arabella de Quentin

 Occupation school teacher

Known for her teaching

Spouse Dominique de St Quentin

Partner Dominique de St Quentin

Frances Arabella Rowden, later Frances de St Quentin, (1774 – c. 1840) was a

British schoolmistress and poet. Her students included Emma Roberts, Anna Maria
Fielding, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Frances Anne Kemble and Rosina Bulwer Lytton.

Life[edit]
Rowden was the first of four daughters born to Frances and Robert Rowden. She was
born in 1774 and in 1779 her family moved to Henley-on-Thames where her father
borrowed money from her aunt who ran a school (where she was educated). Her father
who been a dealer is spirits and drugs died in 1782 in debt. [1]
Rowden went on to work at Reading Abbey Girls' School which was run by the principal
Dominique de St Quentin and Ann Pitts who was the senior mistress and his wife. The
school's former pupils included Jane Austen.[1]
In 1801 she published A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany [2] which was
unusual in that it broke up the facts about botany with poems. [1] Her book may have
been seen as an uncontroversial alternative to Erasmus Darwin.[3]
During Rowden's eventful career she had a number of notable pupils. These
included actress Frances Anne Kemble, and the novelists Anna Maria Fielding, Letitia
Elizabeth Landon, Emma Roberts, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton.[1]
She died around 1840.

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23), "The Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp.  ref:odnb/59581,  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59581, retrieved 2023-04-24
2. ^ Rowden, Frances Arabella (1801).  A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T.
Bensley.
3. ^ "Frances Arabella Rowden | Orlando". orlando.cambridge.org. Retrieved  2023-04-24.

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