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I read this as part of #12PlaysIn12Months.
This was not a play or story I was familiar with but after doing some research, I discovered it was based on true events in an Edinburgh boarding school in 1810.
Karen and Martha are two friends who jointly run the Wright-Dobie school for girls. After being punished, manipulative pupil Mary Tilford seeks revenge on her teachers and concocts a story about their having a lesbian affair. Mary coerces fellow pupils into corroborating her story and devastating ...more
This was not a play or story I was familiar with but after doing some research, I discovered it was based on true events in an Edinburgh boarding school in 1810.
Karen and Martha are two friends who jointly run the Wright-Dobie school for girls. After being punished, manipulative pupil Mary Tilford seeks revenge on her teachers and concocts a story about their having a lesbian affair. Mary coerces fellow pupils into corroborating her story and devastating ...more
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