*As an interesting note, Lili’uokalani would later become a student at Oahu College, under the tutelage of Susan Mills in 1865, at the age of 27. According to Helena Allen, her keen intellect was awakened. She worked on grammar and syntax, until she was able to read American and British poets. She also studied some French, as well as more Latin and Greek. She had a great desire to learn, which she passed on to her own hanai (foster) children in later years[i]
[i] Helena G. Allen, The Betrayal of Lili’uokalani, Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917 (Arthur H. Clark Company: Glendale, 1982), 110.
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