For more than 40 years, Mademoiselle Souvestre was the headmistress of Allenswood, a girls’ school outside of London. Among her most famous pupils was the young American Eleanor Roosevelt, who became a distinguished U.S. First Lady but who was then a tremendously awkward and (i)_______ girl. An orphan, Eleanor was raised by relatives in New York, but it was under Mademoiselle Souvestre’s tutelage in England that Eleanor found her voice, and with it, social (ii)__________. Although Eleanor spent just three years at Allenswood, the (iii)_________ of those years with Mademoiselle Souvestre would last a lifetime.
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