Cheltenham Ladies' College

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politics Pat Arrowsmith
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Pat Arrowsmith
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...
Education Lady Cynthia Asquith
When she was fourteen, so that she could experience the atmosphere of a girls' school, Cynthia Charteris was sent once a week, on the advice of Arthur Balfour , to Cheltenham Ladies' College .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
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Education Lady Cynthia Asquith
It was perhaps her performance in Miss Jourdain's Greek lessons that caused her mother to send her to school. Apart from her slight taste of Cheltenham , Cynthia's only experience of a proper school. was...
Education Theodora Benson
She then went to day schools, after which, from the age of seventeen, she had a single year at Cheltenham Ladies' College . She found the place and the other girls quite extraordinary. She hated...
Education Phyllis Bentley
After months of begging her family to send her there, PB left home to attend Cheltenham Ladies' College in Gloucestershire: another secondary school, with a particularly high academic reputation.
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
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Travel Phyllis Bentley
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...
Education Catherine Carswell
CC was educated in Glasgow. She writes of attending, from six to about eight, Miss Watson's school, Glasgow's most expensive private day school for girls. There she experienced torturing piano lessons, having her fingers...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Frances Cornwallis
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...
Employer U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF left her teaching position at Cheltenham Ladies' College to become a middle-aged drop-out, and to write.
Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets.
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Employer U. A. Fanthorpe
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...
Education Florence Farr
FF entered CheltenhamLadies' College as a day pupil.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
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Occupation Florence Farr
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...
Education Evelyn Glover
A reference to taking a French exam at Cheltenham suggests that she must later have been a pupil at Cheltenham Ladies' College .
Glover, Evelyn. Cats and My Camera. M. Joseph.
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Publishing Beatrice Harraden
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...

Timeline

February 1854: A Governors' Report set out the intentions...

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February 1854

A Governors' Report set out the intentions for Cheltenham Ladies' College , now opening as an exclusive boarding school at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. For some years this school filled the function of a University...

1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...

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1926

New statutes at Cambridge University first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.

Texts

Sinclair, May. “A Custance of Today”. Cheltenham Ladies College Magazine, Cheltenham Ladies’ College.