Mary Ward Settlement

At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into...

Muriel's mother surprised her by sympathising with her desire to get into pictures, while her father saw nothing wrong with being a typist. She began working in films as a teenage extra in The...

This novel begins with the death of Althea Vane's father, and her mother's subsequent decision to escape from her conventional role and abandon her children, thereby effectively orphaning Althea and her three sisters. Two...

After rejecting an offer from her former mentor Dorothea Beale to teach at her old school, Cheltenham Ladies' College , made in 1898, JEH gave several lectures at the Passmore Edwards Institute in Bloomsbury on...

ST began her career (her own term) in welfare work under the ægis of Mrs. Humphry Ward . She began by serving food to crippled children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement (later the Mary...

University Hall , MAW 's first settlement house in Bloomsbury and the forerunner of the Passmore Edwards Settlement , officially opened in Gordon Square, London.

The Passmore Edwards Settlement , brainchild of MAW , had its official opening.

MAW 's plan to educate handicapped children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement led to the opening of its ground-breaking Invalid Children's School , with the first classrooms equipped for children with disabilities.

In a public debate over suffrage at the Passmore Edwards Settlement in London, Millicent Garrett Fawcett defeated MAW (by 235 votes to 74).

The settlement's school for disabled children, its play schools, and summer schools were an enormous success, and were eventually copied world-wide. As a tribute to the invaluable role played by MAW in its foundation, the...