London School Board

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politics Augusta Webster
AW served as the elected representative of Chelsea on the London School Board .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
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politics Augusta Webster
AW served a second term for Chelsea on the London School Board .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Augusta Webster
Her democratic beliefs gave her a strong concern for the poor. She worked on the School Board to popularize education and advocated technical instruction in elementary schools. She also supported women's education.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Augusta Webster
AW did not seek re-election to the London School Board in 1882, since poor health compelled her to rest in Italy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Wickham
AW 's mother, Alice (Whelan) Harper , was an eccentric, flamboyant woman of many talents.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Brought up in a poor family in Camden Town, she became a teacher with the London School Board ...
Cultural formation Anna Wickham
Anna Wickham was English, but spent most of her formative years in Australia.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
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Her mother came from a poor, working-class background, but her job as a London School Board teacher removed her somewhat...

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