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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. 51 |
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. 69 |
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. 69n |
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. 10 |
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. 70 |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | Votes for Women carried an appreciation by BH
of the life and work of Dorothea Beale
, founder of Cheltenham Ladies' College
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm. |