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  Dorothea Beale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dorothea Beale (1831-1906) was an English teacher, founder of (Click link for more info and facts about St. Hilda's College, Oxford) St.
Miss Beale was appointed headmistress of the Clergy Daughters' School in (Click link for more info and facts about Westmorland) Westmorland in 1857, but soon moved on to become head of Cheltenham Ladies' College, a post which she held until her death.
She was an active supporter of the (A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)) suffragette movement.
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 Dorothea Beale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothea Beale (1831-1906) was an English teacher, founder of St.
Her name is associated with that of Frances Buss in a satirical rhyme:
Miss Beale was appointed headmistress of the Clergy Daughters' School in Westmorland in 1857, but soon moved on to become head of Cheltenham Ladies' College, a post which she held until her death.
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One role model, Dorothea Beale, was still alive and active, aged 69, as the principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she had been in charge since 1858, and the subject of a well known rhyme:
Miss Beale gave evidence in 1865 to the Endowed Schools Inquiry Commission and gave immense impetus to girls' education.
She founded St Hilda's College, Cheltenham, the first English training college for secondary women teachers, in 1885, and St Hilda's Hall in Oxford in 1893, to give teachers in training the benefit of a year at Oxford (Cambridge already had Girton College, founded in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871.).
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 S2 Edgar Rice Burroughs Library
The Nature of the Evidence excerpt from Uncanny tales (1923)
(1862-1946) Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair: A novelist and suffragist, May Sinclair was not educated until she was 18, when study with Dorothea Beale inspired her to begin writing poetry and, later, fiction.
She served as an ambulance driver in World War I and wrote poetry and fiction based on her war experience.
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