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Education | Mary Wesley | Mary Farmar (later MW
) attended Queen's College
in London for just two terms. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006. 29 |
Education | Katherine Mansfield | Kathleen Beauchamp (later KM
) and two of her sisters attended Queen's College
, Harley Street, London. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 401-2 |
Education | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were active in the founding of Queen's College
in May 1848. There and at Bedford College
, JW
attended lectures by F. D. Maurice
and Francis Newman
. James Martineau
was also an influence. Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx. xv-xvi Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Valentine Ackland | Until the age of sixteen, VA
was educated at Queen's College
in Harley Street, London, which she likened to a convent and described as a most expensive public school for young ladies. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985. 36 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 13 |
Education | Adelaide Procter | In 1850, AP
was among the first students to attend Queen's College
for women students. One of the teachers here was Charles Kingsley
, and it has been argued that she was more influenced by... |
Education | Gertrude Bell | GB
attended Queen's College
, a girls' school in Harley Street, London; that her parents sent her there reflected both Gertrude's outstanding intellectual abilities and her parents' progressive attitudes toward girls' education, for most... |
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 | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
began the term at Queen's College, London
, having astonished her peers by expressing a desire to become a teacher (a controversial decision for one of her social class), in order to rectify the... |
Education | Florence Farr | FF
studied at Queen's College
, London, but did not pursue any regular course of study and often abstained from examinations. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 17-19 |
Education | Sarah Williams | Around 1852, she attended Queen's College, London
, but was forced to leave because of illness. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii. vii, xii |
Employer | Sophia Jex-Blake | While she was a student at Queen's College, London
, SJB
became by invitation a maths tutor there. For this she received a salary, her acceptance of which was disparaged by her father, who wrote... |
Employer | Penelope Fitzgerald | After the war PF
worked chiefly as a journalist and teacher. The story goes that she adopted elaborate procedures to conceal her identity when submitting work to Punch, which was under her father's editorship... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Lilian Voynich | ELV
's mother, Mary (Everest) Boole
, was an English educationist, scholar and spiritualist. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, 2007, pp. 876-7. 876 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Mary Boole |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | VT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street (a secondary, not post-secondary school for girls), but longed to be a university lecturer at Girton College
. Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974. 20 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College
. Queen's College was founded for the training of... |
Timeline
1843: The Governesses' Benevolent Association was...
Building item
1843
The Governesses' Benevolent Association
was founded in London.
Turner, Barry. Equality for Some: The Story of Girls’ Education. Ward Lock Educational, 1974.
92-4
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
224
1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...
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1 May 1848
Queen's College for Women
(a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
24
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
263-4
4 April 1850: The North London Collegiate School for Ladies,...
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4 April 1850
The North London Collegiate School for Ladies
, founded by Frances Mary Buss
as her own venture, re-opened with its new and enduring name at its new address, 46 Camden Street.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
271
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
25
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Buss
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
11 October 1866: Alexandra College, Dublin, was founded by...
Building item
11 October 1866
Alexandra College
, Dublin, was founded by Anne Jellicoe
.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
32-4
Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2025, 10 vols.
8: 339
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