Word: frontierless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watch." These are among the first observations of Fernanda Grey, who at nine embarks on the frightening experience of going to boarding school at Lippington in the last decade before World War I. And an exotic place it is, tending to the daughters of "old, great Catholic families, the frontierless aristocracy of Europe." Nanda is a bright, pretty little girl, but she has two disadvantages: she comes from the middle class (rather than the upper class), and she is a "convert," having joined the church when her father did a year earlier...
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