J. E. Spark

Atalanta began serialising in six parts a short novel for children or young people by Evelyn Sharp , which as a book, 1897, became The Making of a School Girl, dedicated to her own...

At about the age of twelve she began as a day-girl at Miss Spark 's school, Strathallan House, in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington. She became a full boarder at just fifteen when her family...

She found this move was sneered at some years later at her only meeting with James McNeill Whistler , but she had unfaltering support from her old teacher Miss Spark . She lived at first...