Downe House School

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Elizabeth Bowen
EB attended Downe House School , which then occupied Charles Darwin 's former house at Downe inKent.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
38, 43
Education May Cannan
MC began attending Wychwood School , Oxford, at the age of eight. She and her elder sister were then sent as boarders to Downe House School . Here she took her higher certificate, but after...
Education Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby (later AR ), not yet thirteen, went as a boarder when her father retired from Rugby to Downe House School , which had just moved from Kent to Cold Ash near Newbury inBerkshire.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
29-30
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 27. Gale Research, 1980.
27: 299
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
Textual Production Anne Ridler
AR published a biography of her own old headmistress: Olive Willis and Downe House , An Adventure in Education, with a foreword by Elizabeth Bowen .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981.
80: 358
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
1-5

Timeline

1907
Educationalist Olive Willis founded a school for girls at Downe House in Kent, formerly occupied by Charles Darwin . Downe House School began with one pupil, five teachers, and no financial backing.