But a year or so before this time, a school had been begun in the North of England for the daughters of clergymen.
The place was Cowan Bridge, a small hamlet on the coach-road between Leeds and Kendal, and thus easy of access from Haworth, as the coach ran daily, and one of its stages was at Keighley.

The yearly expense for each pupil (according to the entrance-rules given in the Report for 1842, and I believe they had not been increased since the establishment of the schools in 1823) was as follows: "Rule 11.

The terms for clothing, lodging, boarding, and educating, are 14_l_.

a year; half to be paid in advance, when the pupils are sent; and also 1_l_.

entrance-money, for the use of books, &c.