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Education | Muriel Box | 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... |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
began her career (her own term) in welfare work under the ægis of Mrs. Humphry Ward
. Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Lilac and the Rose. G. Duckworth, 1952. 87 |
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... |
Occupation | Muriel Box | Muriel's mother surprised her by sympathising with her desire to get into pictures, while her father saw nothing wrong with being a typist. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 59 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | University Hall
, MAW
's first settlement house in Bloomsbury and the forerunner of the Passmore Edwards Settlement
, officially opened in Gordon Square, London. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 217-19 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | The Passmore Edwards Settlement
, brainchild of MAW
, had its official opening. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 223 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | 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. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 226 Trevelyan, Janet Penrose. The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Constable, 1923. 131 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | In a public debate over suffrage at the Passmore Edwards Settlement
in London, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
defeated MAW
(by 235 votes to 74). Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 302-3,416 |
Textual Features | Rhoda Broughton | 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, Jones, Shirley et al., editors. “’LOVE’: Rhoda Broughton, Writing and Re-writing Romance”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 208-36. 223 |
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