The school was run by Olive Willis
, a graduate of Somerville College
, Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish,
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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but the pupils were expected to...
Instructor
Anne Ridler
Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
AR
published a biography of her own old headmistress: Olive Willis
and Downe House
, An Adventure in Education, with a foreword by Elizabeth Bowen
.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
80: 358
Ridler, Anne. Olive Willis and Downe House. John Murray, 1967.
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Timeline
1907: Educationalist Olive Willis founded a school...
Building item
1907
Educationalist Olive Willis
founded a school for girls at Downe House in Kent, formerly occupied by Charles Darwin
. Downe House School
began with one pupil, five teachers, and no financial backing.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
