Cheltenham Ladies' College

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Maude Royden
MR had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College , from which she won a place at Oxford .
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell.
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“Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com.
Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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Employer Mary Renault
Having gained her qualification at the Radcliffe Infirmary, MR worked as a school nurse at Marlborough College (a boys' public school) in Wiltshire, and in Colwyn Bay on the north coast of Wales...
Employer Pandita Ramabai
When PR left Wantage in September 1884 it was to teach Sanskrit at Cheltenham Ladies' College in Gloucestershire (a private secondary school with high academic standards). She taught there for the years 1884 and 1885...
Education Carola Oman
CO badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which...
Education Viola Meynell
From then on she attended, as a day-girl, the Convent of Our Lady of Sion in Bayswater. Partly modelled on Cheltenham Ladies' College , the convent offered classes in Catholicism and scripture, history, geography...
Education Margaret Kennedy
MK spent just over three years at Cheltenham as a boarder at Cheltenham Ladies' College , a nationally-renowned school for girls.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Education Margaret Kennedy
During her last year at Cheltenham , MK heard W. B. Yeats lecture on the Irish poet and playwright J. M. Synge .
Biographer Violet Powell gives Synge's initialswrongly as J. B.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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Occupation Margaret Kennedy
Along with her fellow classmates at Cheltenham , MK prepared and sent boxes of supplies to British soldiers on the front lines.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
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.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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Friends, Associates Margaret Kennedy
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elspeth Huxley
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...
Education Jane Ellen Harrison
JEH spent two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, a pioneering institution in the education of girls.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Jane Ellen Harrison
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 .
This is absent, however, from standard...
Occupation Jane Ellen Harrison
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...
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.
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Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm.

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.