Private Memoirs of a Kentish Headmistress (Nexus) by Yolanda Celbridge

Graceful young heiress Miss Abigail Swift founds a new academy to teach Kentish maidens discipline and ladylike manners. She meets the stern, lovely matron, already adept at the art of a young lady’s correction; the untamed Walter, longing to become a lady; and the surly beauty Miss Rummer, who keeps the local gentlemen on their toes.

Visiting Paris, Abigail learns from the voluptuous Comtesse de Clignancourt that English discipline makes for French pleasure, and triumphs at the masked ball in Dover Castle by introducing her perverse but well-tested methods to royalty.