Frances Mary Buss, who began her teaching career at fourteen,
was only twenty-three when she founded the North London Collegiate
School, the forerunner and model of Girls High Schools throughout
the country. Her friend Dorothea Beale was for nearly fifty years
Principal of Cheltenham Ladies College, which she changed from an
insignificant local school into a school and college with a
comprehensive teacher training department and with upwards of a
thousand pupils. She was also the founder of St.Hilda s College,
Oxford. Imbued with strong religious principles and endowed with
immense energy and industry, the two women exercised a powerful
influence on the development of women s education in Britain. Yet
both had to contend with bitter opposition and disillusionment.
This is the first joint biography of Miss Buss and Miss Beale and
it gives a fascinating comparison of their methods and widely
differing characters. The author had access to hitherto unpublished
material, and gathered information from pupils of both schools and
from others who knew the two headmistresses, ensuring that the
book, whilst full of anecdotes, is also authoritative.
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