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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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