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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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, 1983. 35-6 |
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... |
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... |
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, 2001. 276 Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm. |
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... |
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... |
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, 1983. 28-30 |
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