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death | Maria Grey | Her sister Emily
had preceded her, dying on 20 March 1897. Dorothea Beale
summed up the sisters' life's work when she declared that they had worked in faith and gradually the mountain of prejudice yielded... |
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 | Phyllis Bentley | As a young child PB
went as a weekly boarder to Halifax Ladies' College, a private school in her home town run by Miss Monica
and Miss Kate Pannett
. (Such a school would take... |
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 | Edith Craig | Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson
. Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since... |
Education | Florence Farr | During her time at school she boarded with a cousin. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 10 |
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | Her work for women's education brought MG
into contact with Dorothea Beale
, Emily Davies
, Mary Carpenter
, and Mary Gurney
. Her time in Italy brought her other friends, among them the operatic... |
Instructor | May Sinclair | |
Instructor | Jane Ellen Harrison | The founder and principal, Dorothea Beale
, believed that girls should not only be given moral and social instruction, but also provided with the same educational foundation as boys; consequently, she implemented rigorous academic standards... |
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... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
... |
politics | Maria Grey | MG
received a silver casket from Frances Mary Buss
and Dorothea Beale
, famous as headmistresses under the Girls' Public Day Schools Trust
, in recognition of her contribution to education. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 139 |
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