The School-setting, however cramped, was a source of wider interest than the alternative parlour or nursery. It varied, according to the fortunes of the persons concerned, from the Village School (commonly built on the _Two-Shoes_ foundation, but without its Lilliputian features) to the Academy for young Ladies or Gentlemen: an exclusive community which had received its traditions from Sarah Fielding’s notable little book _The Governess_; or, _The Little Female Academy_[101] published some fourteen years before Rousseau’s _Emile_.