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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 | 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, 2001. 26, 32 |
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, 1962. 69 |
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... |
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, 1983. 25, 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
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, 1983. 28 |
Education | Florence Farr | FF
entered CheltenhamLadies' College
as a day pupil. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 10 |
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, 1989. 13 “Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922. prelims |
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 | 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 | 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, 1938. 70 |
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, 1987. 51 |
Education | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was educated at Dresden in Germany, then at Cheltenham Ladies' College
(a secondary school), Queen's College
, and Bedford College
. She graduated from London University
with a BA in Arts, having studied... |
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... |
Employer | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
left her teaching position at Cheltenham Ladies' College
to become a middle-aged drop-out, and to write. qtd. in Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets, 1995. 69n |