Cheltenham Ladies' College

Partly to make up for her isolation in Halifax, PB kept in touch with many of her Cheltenham friends and visited several of them during the 1920s: in London, Kent, Cambridge...

MK distinguished herself as a writer in her last year at Cheltenham Ladies' College by winning the annual Eisteddfod Competition in both poetry and drama.

At some point during her studies at Cheltenham Ladies' College, JEH 's first printed literary effort appeared: Praying for Rain was published by the Religious Tract Society .

Votes for Women carried an appreciation by BH of the life and work of Dorothea Beale , founder of Cheltenham Ladies' College .

BH also wrote for the Bedford College Magazine and the Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine: for the former in 1915 she described her war-work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium . On 17 June...

The grounds of Stovers School contained, unbeknownst to the girls or their parents, an ammunition dump, guarded by American soldiers. The girls were forbidden to have contact with the soldiers, and the soldiers with the...

Along with her fellow classmates at Cheltenham , MK prepared and sent boxes of supplies to British soldiers on the front lines.

Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan , her mentor nearly ten years earlier at the Theosophical Society , wrote to FF when his school was nearly completed. In preparation for her new position of principal, she returned to...

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...

PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...

Other women writers with whom MK established friendships included Lettice Cooper , Phyllis Bentley (who had also been at Cheltenham ), Marghanita Laski , Elizabeth Jenkins , and Rose Macaulay . These authors supported and...

Her mother, born Eleanor Lilian Grosvenor , was known as Nellie. Nellie was the youngest of her family; niece of the first Duke of Westminster, a member of an impressive clan of courtiers and politicians...

A second cousin of CFC named Dorothea Margaret Complin became the mother of Dorothea Beale , who is famous for founding the Cheltenham Ladies' College . Dorothea Beale never knew Cornwallis personally but later claimed...

UAF left her teaching position at Cheltenham Ladies' College to become a middle-aged drop-out, and to write.

Armed with her new diploma in education, UAF took a job teaching at Cheltenham Ladies' College , a girls' boarding school with a high academic reputation. She later clained that her sixteen years at Cheltenham...