Buss. I don’t think I could send you anything that would help
in an article, or say much more than I have in the Guardian. I
am spoken of as her life-long friend, but I did not know her
until long after I came to Cheltenham, a little before you
joined our Council. It is said in many papers that I attended
with her the evening classes at Queen’s College. I never did.
She assisted at the evolution which transformed our governing
body from a local Committee to what it is now, and by getting
an enlarged Council we were saved from dying of atrophy....
‘From that time we were intimately associated in educational
movements, and I ever felt that she was utterly to be trusted
never to think,—much less to do anything but what was true,
straightforward, unselfish. She was deeply, unostentatiously
religious, lived in the spirit of prayer, and had the love of
God in its twofold sense ever guiding her thought and actions.
Often have we knelt together, at her request, the last thing at
night and said together the Veni Creator.
‘If I spoke the other day of troubles with the governing
bodies—it was not from anything definite that she said to me;
but she has often, to allay my impatience, repeated what one of
her Governors said: “Do you think we come here to register your
decrees?” She received it as a deserved reproof, though, of
course, she must have known what was best for the school, and
never desired her selfish good,—only that of the School.
‘The large view she took of the general outlook for the growing
up teachers struck me much. The provision for the future, the
opening of new occupations, the health and bodily development.
Her gymnasium, I think, she herself built and gave to the
school.... She had a lady doctor to examine the girls, weigh
them, etc., etc.
‘The formation of the Head-mistresses’ Association was entirely
due to her. The first meeting, and, I think, the second was
held at Myra Lodge. She was very anxious about the “Teachers’
Guild.”
‘I sat with her on the Council of the Church Schools’ Company,
and was surprised at the amount of time and thought she gave
to it. With such solicitude she used to say, “My dear, we must
help these young Head-mistresses.” Whenever any school-mistress
got into difficulties she was of such sympathy and help.
‘Then she tried so much to help her old girls, to promote the
love of reading in her staff, to call out their helpfulness in
many ways. That exhibition of things made that cost nothing,
was a very original idea, and taught economy by an object
lesson....
‘The ways in which she used to help poor girls were hardly
known to any one; clothes she used to get sent to them, and she
had friends to whom she could mention cases where money help
was needed and get it. Then she was not one to give up because
she could not influence people by what were _for her_ the
highest motives; but appealed to the best _in them_, would give
ethics when she could not give religion, and when she spoke of
wrong, it was with a sorrow which covered the indignation.
‘There was a real solicitude, in spite of her many occupations,
to help all teachers. She would get books to send round to
other schools to help them, and never seemed to think of any
being rivals, but rather fellow-workers.
‘But you must know most of what I am saying, for you knew her
well, and she specially loved your wife. I am only writing what
comes to my mind to do what I can; but you see I have so few
definite facts, and I knew her only when she was full-grown in
character and her work established.
‘I think, having a Boarding House as well as a School was a
mistake, and she felt it so at last. It was impossible for her
to attend to it much herself; and I think she should not have
rushed off on foreign tours at Christmas.
‘Finally, perhaps, I may say that she was, it seemed to me,
always pained and surprised at wrong in others, and expectant
of good, and able to see the latent good underlying the
apparent evil. She had the charity that hopeth all things.
‘Her generosity in money matters was very great, especially
to her family. She used to speak with such joy and pride of
the battles her brother fought in Shoreditch, and her brave
sister-in-law, and great was her affection for her nephew.
‘Forgive my incoherence please, and take the will for the deed.’
Miss Beale wrote but little about herself, but in her correspondence with
an intimate friend, she would give glimpses of her own personal life,
even of her doings, as well as of her thought and reading. Her letters to
Miss Amy Giles are the most interesting from this point of view, covering
as they do the last period of her life. Some extracts from these are
given:—
‘_July 6, 1897._
‘DEAR AMY,—I wonder what you will do now that you have quite
lost your beloved mother. I was talking with Miss Sewell about
you, and said I wished you could come and spend a week here....
If you came the week after next, perhaps you would like to stay
for our Quiet Days at the end.’
To the same:—
‘_August 15, 1897._
‘I have kept your letter so long, hoping I might see my way
to pay you a visit, which I should so very much like to do,
but I am afraid the prospect is a diminishing one. It was a
great pleasure to renew my acquaintance with one whom I had
loved as a pupil, and to find we had grown even nearer during
the intervening years. It would, too, be a pleasure to see
Miss Sewell, for whom I have so great an admiration. I will
not altogether give up hopes, but I am much afraid it will be
impossible. The work for Longmans is to fill two hundred pages.
I get ordinarily a hundred and fifty letters a week on College
business, and now that we are beginning this Elementary work,
there is a Head to be found, prospectuses to be drawn up, the
Education Office to be consulted, etc., and also the Magazine
to be edited, and some few people I must see....
‘There are many things one has to deny one’s self “for the
work’s sake,” but it is worth while. I cannot be too thankful
for being allowed to do it.’
To the same:—
‘_August 25, 1898._
‘My sister has come home on purpose, and I am spending a week
with her on the hills; my niece helping to copy the MS.’
In the summer holidays of 1898 Miss Beale stayed with Miss Giles at
Bonchurch. They afterwards visited Marlborough College and Savernake
Forest together, parting at Marlborough station. Miss Beale wrote after
this to Miss Giles:—
‘_August 28, 1898._
‘I will own that after you were gone all things seemed
colder.... The doctor thought me wonderfully well, and my ears
much better than usual after so long an absence. He says I can
go to-morrow, and highly approves of cycling if I can do it....
May the spiritual sun ever rise for you, my dear child, more
and more until the perfect day.’
To the same:—
‘_September 7, 1898._
‘I had some bicycle lessons at Woodchester, but all united in
recommending tricycling instead for me.’
To the same:—
‘_October 1898._
‘That cycling is wonderful, I am so much better.’
To the same:—
‘_November 13, 1898._
‘Miss Belcher is still very ill, but yesterday brought me a
gleam of hope. Thanks to you I am wonderfully well. I have
cycled two mornings as far as our Sanatorium, and got back
about 8 A.M. ... I think this renewed life must mean that there
is some more work for me to do, or that I want strength to bear
some coming trials....
‘We have been getting some lectures from Mr. de Sélincourt,
also a son-in-law. We like him very much.... Next Saturday I
have to attend six meetings. I had to go to London lately, and
spent a night at St. Hilda’s East; it looks so nice, and seems
going on so well.’
To the same:—
‘_November 29, 1898._
‘I am glad you have seen the Chapel of the Ascension. Mr.
Shields is far the best interpreter I have ever seen of Bible
thoughts in pictures.... Thanks to you I am wonderfully strong
this term.... I have joined the Aristotelian Society. I shall
almost never, perhaps _never_ be able to attend the meetings,
but I shall get papers.... Miss Belcher is still battling with
the disease. Sometimes we hope, and then we fear we may lose
her, but to gain time is much.’
To the same. Written when there was some idea of Miss Giles living
abroad:—
‘_May 14, 1899._
‘I don’t like the idea of your being uprooted from England....
It is different to go for a time, but it seems to me that most
English people who live abroad have their lives comparatively
wasted.’
To the same. After alluding to the death of Mrs. Moyle:—
‘_July 16, 1899._
‘It seems so wonderful that I should be alive, and see so many
dear children pass away.’
To the same. Speaking of the South African War:—
‘_December 26, 1899._
‘It is indeed a sad time, and I don’t see how it is to end;
surely we as a nation have to pass through the fire.... I think
all the advantages we women have had this last half century
were to prepare us for some terrible trials. Shall we be able
to look up and lift up our heads above this earth, and know
that salvation draweth nigh? I think you will understand me.’
To the same. Also about the South African War:—
‘_February 10, 1900._
‘It is difficult to keep up one’s active powers with this
nightmare: one is so sure that all suffering is intended to be
purifying, and so we must glorify God in the fires. War does
seem to be waged in a more humane spirit than ever before, that
is one comfort, and there are many others.’
To the same. Miss Giles had sent a paper for the Magazine:—
‘_September 1900._
‘I feel sure I shall not accept Guinevere as a subject for our
magazine. I am not fond of the Idylls.’
To the same. On recovering from bronchitis:—
‘_1903._
‘Thanks for your kind offer, but I must not ask any one to stay
this term; I must reserve every bit of strength for the work.’
To the same. Towards the end of the Easter holidays, when she had been
confined to her room with a bronchial attack:—
‘I have been reading a very pretty book, _The House of Quiet_.
Now I have Herbert Spencer’s _Autobiography_, which I am not
reading, but a friend picks out bits for me. I have been going
over again some old friends, _Dr. Jekyl_, _Cecilia de Noel_,
etc.’
To the same:—
‘_June 1905._
‘I had a very enjoyable visit to Winchester to the annual
meeting of head-mistresses, and last week I dined at the
Clothworkers’, my first experience of a City company’s dinner.
There were many interesting people.’
In the summer holidays of 1905 Miss Giles accompanied Miss Beale to
Oeynhausen. The two following letters concern the preparation made for
this visit to the German baths.
‘_July 1905._
‘Have you quite made up your mind not to come to the Quiet
Days?... remember you will have a period of spiritual
starvation as regards church-going....
‘I mean to take as little as possible ... we do no visiting ...
a few books I must have. If you come, you could write out your
notes of addresses and read them to me, as I am not likely to
hear them.... We have had twelve concerts, and I was present at
most of them. I have not yet signed a report, and have taken
leave of only some of the _about_ one hundred and twenty who
will leave.
‘I thought of taking Illingworth’s _Personality_,—and perhaps
_Lux Mundi_, if you do not know it well; also some _Hamlet_
books: but I shall take chiefly light books, in a material
sense.’
On returning from Germany Miss Beale went to Hyde Court for her niece’s
wedding, and wrote on arrival to Miss Giles.
‘_September 1905._
‘Lena looks lovely!’
A letter followed describing the wedding, and concluding thus:—
‘The country is looking lovely—even in the rain; but the
swallows are flying about in great excitement. I think they
must be departing at once. I wonder how long I shall be
privileged to go on working before I too migrate. I do hope I
may be able to work on to the end....’
To the same:—
‘_September 1905._
‘I had nightmare last night about war in India. Russia is quite
ready to turn her armies into Afghanistan, and she is allowed
to keep all ready in Manchuria. Well, one can only hope that
still out of the strife will come soul evolution.’
In September 1905 Miss Beale’s letters speak of exhaustion, but others
wrote of her that she was busy, full of energy, and ‘does not seem to
tire.’
To the same. Speaking of her visit to London in the Christmas holidays:—
‘_January 15, 1906._
‘One afternoon I spent with Mrs. Benson, and Miss Benson lent
me the book recounting her digging up of the Temple of Mut.
Arthur Benson too was there, and Miss Tait and Mrs. Henry
Sidgwick.
‘What a revolution we have! If we had stood still things might
have been as they are in Russia. One could not be satisfied
with the late government, but one dreads violent changes; it is
well there are a few strong men in the Ministry. Mr. Balfour
deserves his fate for not bringing in a re-distribution Bill,
and for tyrannising—but one feels sorry for him too.
‘_PS._—Think of us on Tuesday’ (the opening day of term), ‘I
feel so weak.’
The weakness to which Miss Beale alluded was destined to continue, but
amid the decay of natural health long-rooted hopes grew strong and
blossomed afresh. But a few weeks before her own death she wrote to a
friend who had recently lost her mother:—
‘You will miss your beloved mother, but it is well. I suppose
none of us desire to live after our faculties fail.... I am
feeling old age is creeping on.... Well, we shall soon all
meet—Behind the veil, behind the veil!’
FOOTNOTES
[1] MS. Autobiography.—D. Beale.
[2] MS. autobiography.
[3] ‘Have you seen Miss Cornwallis’ _Letters_? A very remarkable
woman, though a little uncomfortable to herself and others, and a
little too audacious now and then. She wrote these _Small Books on
Great Subjects_ which were much thought of at the time, and always
considered a man’s work.’—_Letters of Dr. John Brown_, CLXXXIV.,
‘To Lady Airlie.’ (Adam Black, 1906.)
[4] See chap. xv., Letter to the Bishop of Manchester.
[5] William Cornwallis Harris, Major H.E.I.C., was also a cousin
of Mr. Beale’s. Major Harris saw service in India, shot big game
in the heart of Africa, was sent in charge of a mission to Shoa in
Abyssinia, returning after arranging a commercial treaty. For this
he was knighted. He died in India in 1848, aged 41.
[6] MS. autobiography written about 1895.
[7] Author of _Malvern Chase_ and other works.
[8] MS. autobiography.
[9] MS. autobiography.
[10] _Ibid._
[11] MS. autobiography.
[12] On the Education of Girls.—_Fraser’s Magazine_, October 1866.
[13] MS. autobiography.
[14] MS. autobiography.
[15] MS. autobiography.
[16] _Ibid._
[17] MS. autobiography.
[18] _Ibid._
[19] See Appendix A.
[20] _Nineteenth Century_, April 1888.
[21] Mr. Carus Wilson was ordained the following year by the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
[22] Bishop Jackson.
[23] _Kaiserwerth Deaconesses._ By a Lady.
[24] _Ibid._
[25] _Ibid._
[26] See Appendix B.
[27] See Appendix C.
[28] See chap. v.
[29] _Nineteenth Century_, 1888.
[30] Mr. Bellairs was subsequently Vicar of Nuneaton, and Hon.
Canon of Worcester.
[31] Afterwards first Bishop of Tasmania.
[32] ‘Cheltenham is Attica in architecture and Bœotia in
understanding.’—_Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1828.
[33] ‘Cheltenham: a polka, parson-worshipping place of which
Francis Close is Pope, besides pumps and pump-rooms, chalybeates,
quadrilles, and one of the prettiest counties of Britain.’—A.
TENNYSON, Letter, 1845.
[34] These were among the first in the country.
[35] See Appendix D.
[36] _History of Ladies’ College_, p. 12.
[37] These marks of omission occur in the copy of Miss Beale’s
letter left among her papers.
[38] _History of the Ladies’ College_, p. 22.
[39] Afterwards Sir Thomas Barlow and Sir William Gull.
[40] ‘Of Queens’ Gardens,’ _Sesame and Lilies_, J. Ruskin.
[41] See p. 11.
[42] On the Education of Women. A Paper read by Mr. William Grey at
the meeting of the Society of Arts, May 31, 1871.
[43] Mrs. Grey.
[44] Heroic couplets.
[45] Lincoln’s Inn.
[46] _Francis Mary Buss and Her Work for Education_, A. E. Ridley,
p. 242.
[47] _History of the Ladies’ College._
[48] The Rev. G. H. Wilkinson, D.D., then Vicar of St. Peter’s,
Eaton Square. At his death, Bishop of St. Andrews and Primus of the
Scottish Church.
[49] _Poems_, F. W. Faber.
[50] ‘In Retreat, 1883.’
[51] ‘Building.’
[52] ‘In Retreat, 1883.’
[53] Letter to a friend.
[54] _Ibid._
[55] In every embassy in Europe, in many Government houses in our
colonies, and in several courts of Asia, wives and mothers are
living who have drawn their earliest principles from the ideal
teachings of Dorothea Beale.—_Court Journal_, November 24, 1906.
[56] First preface.
[57] _Ibid._
[58] Bacon’s _Advancement of Learning_.
[59] Guild Address, 1888.
[60] See Bishop Lightfoot’s ‘Sermon on St. Hilda,’ _C.L.C. Mag._,
Spring 1886.
[61] See Miss Beale’s paper, ‘St. Hilda’s,’ _C.L.C. Mag._, Autumn
1886.
[62] Chap. VIII.
[63] Dr. Kitchin, now Dean of Durham.
[64] Then Somerville Hall.
[65] Mrs. C. T. Mitchell, who has from the first been connected
with the Guild work.
[66] Now Bishop of London.
[67] Afterwards Mrs. Charles Robinson.
[68] Even such an act as this had nothing personal in it. ‘Once,’
writes an old girl, ‘I asked Miss Beale to sign a photograph on
the last afternoon of the term. She said her hand was tired with
shaking hands, and asked if next term would do. When I said it was
a Christmas present for Mother, and I wanted to give it complete,
she at once sat down and signed it.’
[69] Compare with this Miss Beale’s remarks on history as an
educational subject, _Work and Play_, p. 114.
[70] Miss Beale published some of her lectures on literature in
1902 in the volume entitled, _Literary Studies of Poems New and
Old_: G. Bell and Sons.
[71] So much did Miss Beale dislike a formal study of the Bible,
that when first the Oxford Local Examinations were taken in the
College, she induced the parents of pupils entering for them to
sign a conscience clause to the effect that they did not wish their
children to take a Scripture examination. The amount set for study
was afterwards lessened, and could therefore be more thoroughly
taught. Thus her objections were minimised.
[72] _Relation of Home to School Life, No. II., Truth._
[73] _Work and Play in Girls’ Schools._
[74] She spoke of tennis as ‘playing archery.’
[75] At Miss Clarke’s school in the Christmas holidays of 1877, the
first Retreat Miss Beale attended.
[76] See chap. xv.
[77] Death of Miss Newman at Mayfield House.
[78] Now Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and Canon of Ely.
[79] _Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education._
[80] Now at Mukti, Poona District.
[81] Its objects are: a systematic study of mission work in all
lands; formation of closer links with those old College girls who
are now missionaries.
[82] Bishop Webb.
[83] In this section the methods best adapted for the secondary
instruction of girls, specially as regards Modern Languages and
Science, were discussed.
[84] M. Fallières, then Ministre de l’Instruction publique.
[85] It is interesting to compare this opinion with those expressed
in the last Head-masters’ Conference (December 1907) by the
Head-masters of Eton and Winchester, who were in the minority which
would have lessened the amount of scholarship Greek required from
boys of thirteen and fourteen.
[86] The marvels of astronomy had always a special fascination for
Miss Beale. When the Leonid meteors were expected on one night in
1898 the Chief Constable, Admiral Christian, by her wish instructed
the police as soon as they appeared to ring up Miss Beale, and she
was to pull the alarm-bell to rouse the girls.
[87] The news reached Miss Beale two days later. See Appendix E.
[88] On Secondary Education.
[89] Charles Smith, M.A., Master of Sidney Sussex College.
[90] Designed by Mr. E. R. Robson, F.S.A.
[91] Raphael.
[92] Mrs. James Owen.
[93] Letter to Miss Strong.
[94] Now Sir Arthur Rücker.
[95] Queen Margaret’s College.
[96] He was surreptitiously introduced into the gallery of the Hall
while Miss Beale was giving a lesson.
[97] Miss Buss.
[98] Miss Gretton.
[99] This proved to be the date of her funeral.
[100] See Letters.
[101] The allusion is to Mrs. Charles Robinson.
[102] See Appendix F.
[103]
‘Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence,
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself ...
Both thanks and use.’—_Measure for Measure._
A favourite quotation of Miss Beale’s.
[104] After Mrs. Robinson’s death in 1906, Miss Beale wrote to
Canon Robinson, ‘I think I may say that Clara was the best beloved
of all my children.’
[105] F. Du Pré.
[106] _Fraser’s Magazine_, October 1866.
APPENDIX A, Page 28.
A lady who attended Dr. Bernays’ German classes with Miss Beale has
interesting recollections of her. She remembers her as in appearance
‘very fair and slight and interesting looking,’ with a quiet dignity and
attraction about her which gave her an influence; one remarkable instance
of this may be told.
Dorothea and Anna Beale were once absent from the German class on its
first meeting for a new term. Dr. Bernays said they should read _Faust_,
and accordingly all the pupils brought copies of _Faust_ to the next
class. When all were seated, Dorothea stood up and said quietly and
respectfully that she thought _Faust_ objectionable reading for young
girls, and suggested some other book. Dr. Bernays looked just a little
annoyed, but listened quite kindly. He said it was a pity the books had
been bought, but put it to the class what should be done. Such was Miss
Beale’s influence that all decided to submit to her judgment.
APPENDIX B, Page 74.
TITLES OF CHAPTERS IN MISS BEALE’S _TEXTBOOK_ 1858.
A.D. FIRST CENTURY.—Christianity.
” SECOND ” Good Emperors.
” THIRD ” Barbarian Invasions.
” FOURTH ” Establishment of Christianity in the
Roman Empire.
” FIFTH ” Fall of the Roman Empire.
” SIXTH ” Struggles of the Eastern Emperors with
the Barbarian Kings.
” SEVENTH ” Saracens.
” EIGHTH ” Charlemagne.
” NINTH ” Northmen.
” TENTH ” Cities increase in importance.
” ELEVENTH ” Hildebrand.
” TWELFTH ” Crusades.
” THIRTEENTH ” The Age of the Schoolmen.
” FOURTEENTH ” The Middle Classes increase in importance.
” FIFTEENTH ” Invention of Printing.
” SIXTEENTH ” Reformation.
” SEVENTEENTH ” Religious Wars.
” EIGHTEENTH ” Struggles for Political Liberty.
APPENDIX C, Page 75.
A PAGE OF MISS BEALE’S _SELF-EXAMINATION_ 1858.
Have I been | The ungodly borroweth | Most of the forms of
always careful to | and payeth not | injustice come under the
return anything | again.—_Ps._ xxxvii. | head of sins of the tongue;
borrowed? | 21. | _e.g._, ascribing false
| | motives, evil-speaking,
| The spoil of the | &c. Cheapening, making
| poor is in your houses. | bargains, is generally
| What mean ye that ye | injustice. Also, delaying
| grind the faces of the | to pay what you owe—you
| poor.—_Is._ iii. 15. | may deceive yourself,
| | so far as to think
| Woe unto him that | that you are only anxious
| buildeth his house by | to be economical, that
| unrighteousness, and | you may have more to give
| his chambers by | away; but will it not be an
| wrong; that useth his | insult to God to offer Him
| neighbours’ service | part of your unjust gain?
| without wages, and | It is much more charitable
| giveth him not for his | to pay justly, than to
| work.—_Is._ xvii. 13. | give; but there is not so
| | much chance of praise.
| I will be a swift |
| witness against them |
| that oppress the |
| hireling in his |
| wages.—_Mal._ iii. 5. |
| |
| Say not unto thy |
| neighbour go, and |
| come again, and |
| to-morrow I will give, |
| when thou hast it by |
| thee.—_Prov._ iii. 28. |
| |
Have I indulged | Whatsoever thy | Do not leave yourself time
my body | hand findeth to do, do | to think about anything it
by idleness, not | it with all thy | is your duty to do.
rising when I | might.—_Eph._ x. 9. |
ought, taking | | Idleness, by delaying,
unnecessary rest? | Be not slothful in | conquers; stop to parley
| business.—_Rom._ | and you have lost the day.
| xii. 11. | It is a great help in
| | getting up, or beginning
Wasting time | Early in the morning | any occupation, to have
with unprofitable | will I direct my | some signal, and then never
or idle talking, | prayer unto Thee, and | allow yourself one second
or reading? | will look up.—_Ps._ | after. Be careful to make
| | some fixed arrangement
Allowing idle | Rising a great while | of your time, as far as
thoughts to run | before day, He departed | possible; at any rate,
on unchecked? | into a solitary | put in as many landmarks
| place, and there | as you can in the day; but
Refusing prompt | prayed.—_S. Matt._ | do not praise yourself
and cheerful | i. 35. | for your conscientious
obedience because | | arrangement of your time,
unwilling to | | or you will find, in a few
give up some | | days, that you have become
interesting | | quite unpunctual.
occupation? | |
APPENDIX D, p. 90
PROSPECTUS OF THE CHELTENHAM COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES
NOVEMBER 1, 1853
PROSPECTUS
OF
THE CHELTENHAM COLLEGE INSTITUTION
FOR
THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG LADIES
AND OF
CHILDREN UNDER EIGHT YEARS OF AGE;
Cambray House.
Committee:
REV. H. W. BELLAIRS, M.A., one of H.M.’s Inspectors of Schools,
_3, Priory Parade_.
REV. W. DOBSON, M.A., Principal of the Cheltenham College, _2,
Sandford Place_.
REV. H. A. HOLDEN, M.A., Vice Principal of the Cheltenham
College, Fellow and late Assistant Tutor of Trinity College,
Cambridge, _The Queen’s Hotel_.
LIEUT.-COL. FITZMAURICE, K.H., _14, Royal Crescent_.
S. E. COMYN, ESQ., M.D., _4, Berkeley Place_.
NATH. HARTLAND, ESQ., _The Oaklands, Charlton Kings_.
Honorary Secretary:
REV. HUBERT A. HOLDEN, M.A.
Treasurer:
NATHANIEL HARTLAND, ESQ.
The COMMITTEE are now able to publish a detailed Prospectus of the Course
and Arrangements of this Institution, with the Hours and Terms for the
various Departments and Classes.
The management of the educational Working of the College, which it is
proposed to open after the ensuing Christmas Vacation, will be committed
to a LADY PRINCIPAL to be assisted by Teachers and Professors, appointed
by the Committee.
FEES, PAYABLE HALF YEARLY IN ADVANCE.
The Pupils of the Institution will be arranged in FOUR DIVISIONS,
according to attainments; and the terms will be regulated according to
the following scale:—
FOR THE FIRST DIVISION 12 _Guineas for the Half Yearly Session_.
FOR THE SECOND DIVISION 9 _Guineas_ ” ”
FOR THE THIRD DIVISION 6 _Guineas_ ” ”
FOR THE FOURTH DIVISION 4 _Guineas_ ” ”
Children will be admitted after the completion of their Fourth year; but
Boys must be withdrawn on the completion of their Seventh year.
REGULAR COURSE OF STUDY:
HOLY SCRIPTURE AND THE LITURGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
The PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR and the Elements of LATIN,
ARITHMETIC,
CALISTHENIC EXERCISES,
DRAWING,
FRENCH,
GEOGRAPHY,
HISTORY,
MUSIC,
NEEDLEWORK.
EXTRA AND BYE COURSE OF STUDY:
GERMAN,
ITALIAN,
DANCING.
For Pupils desirous of availing themselves of _extra_ Lessons in MUSIC
and DRAWING from Professors attached to the College, extra Classes will
be formed and extra charges made.
EXTRA OR BYE STUDENTS.
Students, not engaged in the Regular Routine of the College Course, will
be at liberty to attend the Bye Course of Study and also the _extra_
Classes in MUSIC and DRAWING. Such Students may be nominated upon either
Ordinary or Bye Shares (issued at £10 each), and will be required to pay
a Fee of _Two Guineas_ a year to the College, exclusive of the Fee to the
Professor.
HOURS OF ATTENDANCE.
MORNING.—From a Quarter past Nine to a Quarter past Twelve.
AFTERNOON.—From Half-past Two to Half-past Four.
(_Wednesday and Saturday Half Holidays._)
Children under Seven Years of Age will attend in the Mornings only.
_Members of Classes for Religious Instruction under the Parochial Clergy,
will be excused attendance at the College on Monday Afternoons._
BOARDING HOUSES
for the reception of Pupils will be opened, with the sanction of the
Committee, in the immediate neighbourhood of CAMBRAY HOUSE, under the
Superintendence of the following Ladies:—Mrs. MURGEAUD, _7, Oriel
Terrace_; Miss ATKINSON, _of Kingsbridge, Devon._; Mrs. TREW, _of
Stoneham House, Bath Road_.
The Charge for Boarders is £35 per annum. Extras: Washing £4, 4s.; Seat
in Church £1, 1s.
A few of the Fifty £20 Shares remain to be disposed of; application for
which should be made to the Hon. Secretary. The Proprietors of such
Shares will have the option of nominating either one Regular or two Bye
Students.
Several Teachers and Professors have been appointed, the announcement of
whose names is deferred for the present, till the list is complete.
_November 1, 1853._
APPENDIX E, Page 332.
EDWARD BEALE.
The Reverend Edward Beale, a member of the Society of St. John the
Evangelist, Cowley, died at Mazagon, Bombay Presidency, on February 3,
1894. He was a younger brother to whom Miss Beale was much attached.
His early promise of a brilliant career was cut short by severe illness
while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford. For years he was wholly
incapacitated, but on recovering partial health he received deacon’s
orders, and before joining St. John’s Society, worked for a time at
Warminster. Here he gave the addresses afterwards published under the
title of _The Mind of Christ_.
From Cowley Mr. Beale was sent to the Society’s Mission in Bombay. He was
much beloved and looked up to by those among whom he worked. At the time
of his death (which occurred after a very short illness) he was engaged
to read a paper at the coming Diocesan Conference on ‘The Necessity of
Faith in the Church as the Fullest Possible Manifestation of the Life of
God in Creation.’ His funeral was attended by a crowd of the poorest poor.
The following lines in her brother Edward’s handwriting, found among Miss
Beale’s papers, seem to be undoubtedly original, and to tell the history
of his consecrated life:—
INDIA—WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, 1884.
Once I was wont to prize
Glance from approving eyes,
And sun myself too fondly in their light.
Too eager to entwine
The flowers about Love’s shrine
With pulses throbbing with a wild delight.
And one who loved me said,
With voice of boding dread,
‘Oh child, these hopes will fade, these flowers will die,
And what will then remain
To ease the long, slow pain,
Unless your heart be lifted up on high?
...
Once when I heard a name
Of high heroic fame,
Of lives of lasting influence for good,
I felt my heart on fire
With one long vague desire
To join the ranks of those who have withstood.
But now I do not ask
For such heroic task,
My heart is all too faint to stand the glare,
My eyes too weak to see
The path laid out for me,
I only wait and feel that One is there.
...
One, at whose blessed feet
I lie in silence sweet
Perhaps unheeded as the world goes by,
There only lying still
Waiting to know His Will,
Till He shall bend on me His gracious eye.
Then in that glorious gleam
Shall every earthborn dream,
Darkness, delusion, doubt all flee away:
Truth shall be brought to light,
Faith shall be lost in sight,
In the clear shining of the perfect day!
APPENDIX F, Page 368.
The following notice by an old pupil, now a head-mistress, appeared in
the _Times_ of November 17:—
‘Miss Beale’s personality made itself everywhere strongly felt,
but most of all in her own school. Even in later days, when
she could come in contact with a very small minority of the
1000 under her care, her absence was felt by all as a loss of
moral support, almost a lessening of tension. Strenuousness was
a dominant note of the tone she inspired by the force of her
own vitality, and, to use a favourite word of her own, she was
always “energizing” the school. And it told. “I am sending my
girl to Cheltenham,” said one, “because I find that those who
have been there do their work—paid or unpaid—with thoroughness
and attention to detail,” and others paid the same testimony to
the training. This thoroughness was eminently characteristic of
Miss Beale’s own work. To the end she prepared her lessons with
the same care she would have asked from the merest beginner in
teaching. Her correspondence was unlimited, and an astonishing
amount of it was written in her own hand. She superintended
every detail of the building which she loved—which was indeed
her hobby. While allowing her subordinates much scope and
encouraging suggestion, she kept the threads of the intricate
organisation in her own hands. Her physical energy was
only second to her force of will, though her “spirit” was
pathetically shown in latter days by her refusal to accept the
limitations set by failing health. “We have talked for three
minutes about my health,” she said to one who saw her after a
serious illness, “let us speak of something more interesting.”
And, though she had lost the sight of one eye, and was so
deaf that listening to others reading must have been a strain
rather than a pleasure, she still continued to read every book
of importance as it appeared. Her intellectual vigour was
fresh to the end, and her keen interest in every new branch of
learning unimpaired. She would plunge on a railway journey into
a discussion of the last book on psychology, or demonstrate
the latest method of teaching shorthand. She was astonishingly
young in thought, always “up to date,” and often in advance of
the general progress.
‘Her personal influence, though strong, and in some cases
almost overpowering, was peculiarly free from any weakening
element. She did not encourage demonstration, and, though
in later years she allowed her tenderness more play, the
atmosphere about her was always bracing. Perhaps she was
more in touch with the strong than the weak. She had little
understanding of, or sympathy with any form of frivolity, still
less of flippancy. She made decisions herself on principles
always, and she expected the same from others. Very often
she induced it by her mere expectation, and so made the weak
strong. It was this partly which made so many come to her for
the advice which was given at the cost of any amount of time
or trouble to any “old girl.” And, though she never sought,
or perhaps enjoyed, popularity in the ordinary sense of the
word, many who had feared her in their school-days, grew
afterwards to love her as well as to admire her, and often to
depend on her. She had a great reverence for the conscience
of each with whom she dealt. She brought up her “children” to
think for themselves, and, though naturally disappointed when
they differed from her, she always acknowledged their right to
hold their own opinions. She was incapable of pettiness, and
nothing could exceed her generosity in owning herself mistaken.
Indeed she loved a fair fight, and greatly appreciated an
honourable opponent, and she welcomed as fellow-workers those
of very different views from herself, and had, indeed, the most
wonderful power of discovering worth in all.
‘Much of her outward success was due, no doubt, to her shrewd
business capacity—her physique, her intellectual strength, her
single-minded absorption in the cause of education, and its
concrete embodiment in her own school. But the real success,
her power of inspiring others, was due to her greatness of
character. The Guild meetings, at which there was often an
attendance of some hundreds of old girls, were the source of
inspiration to many. “I come back feeling a poor thing, but
knowing that great things are possible,” was the feeling of
many, if not expressed in these words. And this was due, not to
her organising power, nor even to her freshness of thought, but
to her spiritual genius. She was a seer, perhaps, rather than
a prophet, for, though of original mind, she found accurate
expression of thought difficult. “I never understood Miss
Beale’s Scripture lessons,” said an old pupil, “they were so
vague; but I always felt a bigness of thought about them, and
sometimes the meaning of things she said begins to dawn on me
now.” Her religious life was not expressed formally; but it was
beyond all doubt a real force and the source of her strength.
The feeling was there and was intense. Years after she could
not speak without tears of a time of doubt and uncertainty. She
was rapt in prayer, and at times fervent to passion. It was
with absolute reality that she taught that the important thing
was to know and do the will of God, and it is this above all
else which is causing thousands of her children to “rise up and
call her blessed.”’
The following extract is from a notice in the _Guardian_ of November 21,
1906:—
DOROTHEA BEALE. IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE.
‘Miss Beale is dead. To many of us who loved and reverenced
her, death seems the wrong word to use, she looked forward with
such loving hopefulness to the great time of direct revelation,
that one would rather (following Dr. Pusey’s practice) call her
deathday her last and greatest birthday. Much has been said and
written of her work—comparatively little of her personality. As
one who was honoured by her friendship for over thirty years, I
would ask for a little space in which to describe her. Her most
marked characteristic was her profound reverence for truth.
If truth hurt her, none the less did she accept it loyally.
This sanctified her scholarship. Her generous gratitude to all
who in any way helped her evidenced her large-heartedness.
Especially did she remember her father’s indirect, unconscious
teaching....
‘Among the most treasured memories of the present writer are
those of certain Sunday afternoons spent at Cheltenham with
Miss Beale, her great friend, Miss Buss, and another friend
who has also entered into rest. After saying the Veni Creator
together we talked with perfect openness of those things we
most loved and dreaded. This close personal communion with
such personalities as those of our two great leaders was
at once a privilege and a responsibility. Mention has been
made elsewhere of Miss Beale’s reading at College prayers.
Even more penetratingly beautiful was her reading on some of
those afternoons. In a time of great trouble she read to us
Kingsley’s _St. Maura_. And the pathos with which she lingered
on the words, “Who ever found the Cross a pleasant bed?” made,
at least on one of her hearers, an indelible impression.
‘Perhaps the words which most adequately describe her whole
life are, “I have set God always before me.” She has been, and
still is, to those who knew her, a true Dorothea—the gift of
God.’
E. T. DAY.
INDEX
Address to Parents, 155.
Aitken, Miss V., 258.
Aldrich-Blake, Dr., 357, 362, 363.
Alston, Miss, 30, 40, 62, 79, 97, 98.
Alverstone, Lord, 340.
Ambleside, 333, 388.
Andrews, Miss A., 322, 323, 340, 344, 354, 358, 359, 361.
Angélique, La Mère, 226.
Arnold, Miss C., 161, 173, 246, 267, 268, 280, 282, 283, 372-389.
Asquith, Mr., 340, 341.
Assistant Mistresses’ Association, 294.
Astell, Mrs., 252.
Austin’s, St. (boarding-house), 247.
Autobiography, Miss Beale’s, 3-13.
Balliol College, 330.
Barlow, Sir T., 123.
Barnes, 66, 95, 96, 99.
Barrett, Mrs., 79.
—— Professor, 187, 198.
Barry, Canon, 168.
Bartholomew, Mrs., 7.
Bath, 343.
Batten, Mrs., 240.
Battenberg, Princess Henry of, 334.
Beale, Anna, 123.
—— Dorothea, childhood, 1-9;
schools, 9-14;
home life, 15, 16, 60-66;
Queen’s College, 20-35;
Principal of Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 98, 115;
as teacher, 43, 45, 127, 254-275;
early difficulties, 128;
Blue-book, 138;
as principal, 276-285;
religious faith, 73-89, 187-202, 264, 268;
honours, 319, 323, 324, 336, 339;
letters, 150, 161, 162, 164, 192, 196, 197, 221, 239, 246, 251,
255, 266, 267, 268, 272, 273, 280-285, 287-290, 292, 296, 304-310,
314, 328, 332, 341, 342, 350, 357, 371-419.
Beale, Edward, 15, 130, Appendix E.
—— Eliza, 8, 13, 66, 79, 338.
—— Henry, 1.
—— Miles, 1, 2, 6, 7, 20, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56, 74,
76, 132.
—— Mrs., 2, 95, 107, 130.
Bedford College, 135.
—— Duchess of, 347.
—— High School, 352.
Belcher, Miss, 152, 182, 265, 284, 352, 404-408, 416.
Bell, Mr., J.P., 95, 100, 102, 107.
Bellairs, Canon, 82, 86, 89, 97, 98, 102-107, 168, 238.
Bennett, W. Sterndale, 23, 30.
Benson, Archbishop, 287, 290, 388.
—— Mrs., 287, 292, 400, 419.
—— Miss, 352.
Bernays, Professor, 23, Appendix A.
Berridge, Miss, 343.
Bidder, Miss, 343.
Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, 135.
Blackwood, Lady Victoria, 329.
Blenkarne, Mrs., 30, 79.
Bloemfontein, 301.
Boarding-houses, 89, 170-175.
Body, Canon, 182, 249, 289, 291, 330, 386.
Bonchurch, 331, 415.
Boyd, Dean, 85, 94, 131.
Bradfield, 333.
Brancker, Mr. J. H., 112, 120-124, 165, 227, 228.
Brasseur, Professor, 23, 28.
Bray, Mrs., 13.
Brewer, Professor, 23, 24.
—— Miss, 94, 107, 113, 123, 131.
Bromby, Bishop, 82, 86, 94, 115, 119, 132.
—— Rev. G., 222, 224.
Brown, Miss M., 276, 314.
—— Dr. Morton, 168.
Bruce, Miss, 243, 342.
Bryant, Mrs., 348.
Bryce, Sir J., 141, 325.
—— Commission, 294, 325.
Buckoll, Miss, 68.
Budge, Professor, 355.
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 336.
Burney, Fanny, 83.
Burrows, Mrs., 237.
Burton, Canon, 37.
Buss, Miss, 23, 24, 25, 27, 61, 123, 133, 135, 143, 145, 168, 169,
172, 174, 292, 293, 321, 323, 331, 382, 408.
Caines, Miss, 170, 291, 338, 402.
Caird, Dr. Edward, 378, 392.
Cambray House, 90, 92, 108, 126.
—— —— School, 246, 247.
Cambridge, 330.
Cardew, Dr., 359.
Carpenter, Dr., 135.
—— Mr. Lant, 413.
Carter, Miss, 404, 407.
Casterton, 33, 35, 36-61, 63, 66, 100, 175.
Catherine, St., of Siena, 226.
Charles, Mr. Justice, 173.
_Chart_, the, 126, 261.
Cheltenham, 66, 81, 82, 291, 337.
—— College, 86.
Child-Study Association, 295.
Child, Dr., 235.
Church Schools’ Company, 294.
Clark, Rev. S., 24.
Clarke, Miss Margaret, 180, 183, 282, 330, 331, 401, 408.
Clewer, 134, 251.
Close, Dean, 84, 85, 89, 100, 103, 131.
Clough, Miss, 347.
Coates, Mr., 411, 412.
Cock, Rev. T. A., 24, 26, 29.
Collet, Mrs. Mark, 400.
Colson, M. Théodore, 112.
Complin, Dorothea M. See Mrs. Beale.
—— Elizabeth, 2, 5.
Compton, Bishop, Lord Alwyne, 234.
Comyn, Dr. S. E., 87, 98, 105.
Cooper, Mrs., 403.
Corbet, Rev. R., 196, 197.
Corbett, Miss, 241.
Cornwallis, Archbishop, 3.
Cornwallis, Caroline F., 2, 4, 5.
—— Mrs., 2, 3.
—— Rev., 2, 3.
Coulson, Mrs., 113.
Council, Ladies’ College, 163, 168.
Cowan Bridge, 41.
Cowley House, 330.
Crawford, Annette Bear, 309.
Creighton, Bishop, 242.
Crosby Hall, 6, 11, 12.
Curling, Dr. and Mrs., 96, 105.
Daldy, Dr., 73.
Davenport, Mrs., 23.
Davies, Miss E., 137, 140, 143, 145.
Davis, Rev. L., 17.
Day, Miss E., 404, Appendix F.
—— Mr. Philip, 242.
Degree, Edinburgh University, 339.
De Morgan, Mr., 135.
Denton, Rev. W., 42, 73, 76.
Diary, Miss Beale’s, 70, 79, 105, 107, 181, 185, 189, 191, 195, 233,
255, 292, 330.
Dobson, Rev. W., 87.
—— Mr. Austin, 340.
Dove, Miss, 327.
Draper, Miss, 329.
Drummond, Miss, 407.
Dufferin, Lord, 329.
Dunn, Mr. W., 168.
Durham, 343.
—— University, 324.
Eaton, Miss, 123.
Edinburgh, 339, 341.
Edmonds, Miss, 284.
Eliot, George, 379.
Ellicott, Bishop, 89, 169, 206, 234, 349, 392.
Elwall, Miss, 66, 79, 96.
Endowed Schools’ Commission, 133, 136-145.
Evans, Archdeacon, 42, 50.
Examinations, 114, 124, 146, 153, 231.
Fairbairn, Dr., 326.
Fallières, M., 323.
Fauconberg House, 169, 170, 291.
Fermi, Miss, 360.
Fielden, Mrs., 319.
Fitch, Sir Joshua, 137, 138, 167, 284, 413.
Fitzmaurice, Colonel, 87.
Fliedner, Pastor, 66.
Flower, Sir William, 319.
Fontenay-aux-Roses, 322, 324.
Forster, Mr., 138.
Frankfort, 334.
Fraser, Bishop, 409.
—— Mrs., 129, 160.
Frederick, the Empress, 81, 333.
Freedom of Cheltenham, 336.
French, Bishop, 330.
Froebel Society, 294.
Galloway, Miss, 342.
Garnier-Gentilhomme, Mme., 320.
Garrett, Miss, 135.
Gedge, Rev. W. W., 168.
George III., 82.
Gilbert, Miss E., 23.
Giles, Miss A., 344, 415-419.
Girls’ Public Day-School Company, 123, 145, 166.
Girton, 146.
Gladstone, Mr., 134.
—— Miss H., 305.
Gleichen, Countess F., 334.
Gloucester, 335, 367.
—— Dean of, 219, 366.
Gore, Miss, 360, 362, 399, 410.
Governesses’ Benevolent Institution, 18, 19.
Grahamstown, 301.
Grant, Sir Ludovic, 340.
Granville, Lord, 168.
Green, Mr. T. H., 138.
Greene, Mrs., 58, 102.
Gresham Lectures, 12.
Gretton, Miss, 352.
Grey, Mrs. William, 140, 141, 145, 166, 172, 241, 304, 308, 383.
Griffith, Mrs., 218.
Grzywacz, Fräulein, 344, 360.
Guernsey, 350.
Guild, the, 213-221.
—— —— Plays, 332, 355.
—— —— Settlement, 221-225.
Gull, Sir William, 123.
Gurney, Mrs. Russell, 197, 198, 330, 387, 400.
—— Rev. Alfred, 387.
—— Miss M., 168.
Guyon, Mme., 226.
Hackett, Miss Maria, 7, 146.
Hall, Dr. Stanley, 295.
Harraden, Miss B., 205.
Harris, Dr., 325.
—— Hon. and Rev. C., 95.
Harrison, Miss J., 152, 205.
Hartland, Mr. N., 87, 93-95, 105, 120, 122.
Hay, Mrs., 239.
Hayes, Mrs., 24.
Head-mistresses’ Association, 292, 293.
—— Conference, 351, 404, 418.
Helen’s, St., Church, Bishopsgate, 2, 8.
—— —— (boarding-house), 170, 247.
Hibbert-Ware, the Misses, 403.
Hilda, St., 226, 234.
Hilda’s, St., Association, 243.
—— —— College, Cheltenham, 177, 227, 231, 235.
—— —— East, 242, 331, 342, 356.
—— —— Hall, Oxford, 235-240, 324, 388.
—— —— Work, 243, 250, 251, 252.
Hinton, James, 182, 186.
History of the Ladies’ College, 205.
Hitchin, 146.
Holden, Rev. H. A., 87.
Holland, Canon Francis, 125, 284.
Hopkins, Miss Ellice, 186, 307, 308.
House of Education, 333.
Hullah, Mr. John, 23.
Hutchinson, Canon, 338.
Hyde Court, 1, 130, 182, 183, 185, 418.
Illingworth, Rev. Dr., 330, 347.
Ince, H., _Outlines_, 71, 73, 104.
International Congress of Education, 320.
Jackson, Bishop, 67.
—— Rev. T., 69.
Jervis, Rev. C., 84.
Jex-Blake, Dean, 161, 167.
—— Miss, 23.
Johnson, Miss A., 410.
—— Sir S., 345.
Jowett, Dr., 329, 392.
Jubilee of Ladies’ College, 348.
Kaiserwerth, 64, 66-69.
Kensington Society, 156.
Ker, Miss F., 215, 239, 346.
Keyl, Miss, 349.
Kindergarten, 91, 244-246, 248.
King, Miss, 23.
Kingsley, Rev. C., 23, 24.
Kirby Lonsdale, 40.
Kitchin, Dean, 234, 238.
Knight, Professor, 187.
Kynaston, Canon, 168.
Ladies’ College, 81, 82, 86, 109-130, 135, 157;
new buildings, 158-163;
constitution, 167, 169;
extensions, organ, etc., 211, 212;
Princess Hall, 331;
science wing, 348.
Lady Margaret Hall, 235, 237.
Laing, Rev. D., 17, 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 135.
Lancaster, Mrs., 62-65, 67, 95, 97, 102, 250, 303.
Lane, Miss, 362.
Laurie, Miss, 410.
—— Professor, 341.
Leckhampton, 169, 333, 386.
Lewis, Miss Wolseley, 266, 284, 332.
Lloyd, Mrs., 112.
Loan Fund, 230, 231.
London, Bishop of, 248.
—— Institution, 11.
—— University, 338.
Londonderry, Lord, 348.
Longe, Mr. F. D., 168.
Louch, Miss, 295, 387.
Lowe, Mr., 165.
Lumby, Miss A., 294, 346.
Lyttelton, Lord, 168.
M’Causland, General, 168.
Mace, Mrs., 115, 404.
Mackenzie, Prebendary, 6, 7, 42, 72, 76, 126, 146.
Mackintosh, Sir J., 24.
Magazine, Ladies’ College, 186, 203-210.
Magrath, Rev. Dr., 348, 366.
Manchester, 136.
_Mangnall’s Questions_, 141, 340.
Margaret’s, St., Bethnal Green, 241.
Maria Grey Training College, 176.
Marlborough, 416.
Marriott, Mr. T., 168.
Martin, Miss, 23, 407.
Mason, Canon, 290, 305.
Mason, Miss C., 295, 333.
Maurice, Professor F. D., 20-24, 27, 28.
Mayfield House, 225, 240, 241.
Medd, Canon, 233.
Mellish, Miss, 350.
Merchant Taylors’ School, 15.
Merritt, Mrs. Lea, 346.
Michaelis, Mme., 245.
Middleton, Mr. J., 162, 168.
—— Mrs., 186.
Milner, Miss E., 136.
Missionary Study Circle, 301.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, 304.
Monroe, Mrs. E. H., 320.
Monteagle, Lady, 24.
Moyle, Mrs., 243, 419.
Mugliston, Miss H., 219.
Mulcaster, Miss, 94.
Murray, Miss, 18, 19.
Music-teaching, 110-112.
National Education Association, U.S.A., 324.
—— Vigilance Association, 308.
Newcastle, 342.
Newman, Miss C., 223, 224, 240, 310.
—— Miss M., 176, 177, 227, 411.
—— Francis, 195.
—— J. H., 195.
Nicolay, Rev. C. F., 25, 28, 114.
Nightingale, Miss F., 67, 135.
Nixon, Miss, 320, 411.
Norman, Mr., 336.
Northcote, Sir S., 138.
Oakeley, Sir H. E., 248.
Oeynhausen, 69, 344, 357.
Officier d’Académie, 323.
Oliver, Rev. J., 64.
Ormerod, Miss, 340.
Osborne, Mrs., 342.
Overwork, 153, 278.
Owen, Mrs. J., 168, 174, 186, 206, 213, 298, 299, 303.
—— Mr. S., 124, 125.
_Paidologist, The_, 295.
Parents’ Educational Union, 295.
Paris, 320, 329.
Parratt, Sir W., 211.
Parry, Miss, 26.
Pearce, Colonel, 175.
Phillipps, Miss L. March, 168.
Piper, Miss, 136.
Plumptre, Dean, 23, 26, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 42, 56, 57, 72, 95.
Plunket, Mr. W. L., 329.
Procter, Mrs., 90, 92.
—— Miss, 90, 92, 93, 94, 113, 115, 116, 164.
—— Adelaide, 23.
Pullen, Professor, 12.
Pusey, Dr., 134.
Queen’s College, 19-35, 131, 135.
Radley, 330.
Ramabai, Pundita, 299, 300, 301, 305.
Reid, Mr., 135.
—— Miss M., 410.
Rein, Dr., 387.
Retreats, 286-291.
Reynolds, Mrs., 243.
—— Miss, 97.
Richardson, Miss M., 78.
Riddle, Rev. A. E., 132.
Ridley, Miss A., 169, 293.
Rix, Mr. and Mrs., 363.
Robertson, Rev. F., 86.
Robinson, Mrs. C., 221, 255, 352. See Miss C. Arnold.
Rooke, Mr. T. M., 168.
Rowand, Miss, 359, 361, 362, 402.
Rowley, Miss, 33.
Rücker, Sir A., 340, 341.
Ruskin, Mr., 136, 137;
letters, 207-212, 314-318.
Russell, Major-General, 334.
Ryan, Sir E., 168.
Saintsbury, Professor, 341.
Salazaro, Signora Zampini, 320.
Samuelson, Lady, 320.
Saumerez, Lord de, 89.
Scholarships, 175, 176, 230, 239.
_Self-Examination Questions_, 73, Appendix C.
Sélincourt, Mr. de, 416.
Selwyn, Miss, 176.
Sewell, Miss E., 135, 136, 358, 415.
—— Mrs., 15.
Shannon, Mr. J. J., 347.
Shepheard, Rev. H., 53, 57, 58, 96, 99, 103, 105.
—— Mrs., 58.
Shields, Mr. F., 315, 416.
Shireff, Miss, 145, 305.
Shorthouse, Mr. S., 209.
Simeon, Rev. C., 84.
Sinclair, Miss M., 205.
Smith, Mrs. Ashley, 215-218, 411.
—— Rev. Charles, 330.
—— Professor G. A., 342.
Soames, Miss, 227.
Social Science Congress, 138, 146, 147, 155, 156, 166, 409.
Somervell, Mrs. A., 320.
Somerville College, 235.
Soulsby, Mrs., 290.
—— Miss, 327, 328.
Stanley, Lady, of Alderley, 24.
—— Hon. Lyulph, 321.
Stanton, Rev. V. H., 289, 290, 292.
Stepney, Bishop of, 356, 367.
Stevenson, the Misses, 342.
Stirling, Miss, 345, 346.
Stoke, 190.
Storrar, Dr., 144, 168.
Storrs, Mr., 146.
Story, Dr., 342.
Strettel, Rev. A. B., 25.
Strong, Miss L., 301, 328, 338, 401, 404, 408.
Stroud, 1, 388.
Stubbs, Bishop, 238.
Sturge, Miss, 360, 361, 365, 408.
Sudeley Castle, 392.
Swanwick, Miss A., 393.
Symonds. Rev. W., 6.
Synge, Miss B., 205.
Tait, Miss, 419.
Tallents, Mrs., 349.
Teachers’ Guild, 294.
Temple, Bishop, 138.
Tennyson, Alfred, 19, 137.
_Textbook of General History_, 66, 70, 73, 95, 99, 104, 261,
Appendix B.
Thompson, Miss, 212.
Tiesset, M. and Mademoiselle, 113.
Training of Teachers, 29, 86, 151, 176, 228, 229, 231, 246, 249, 277,
289, 409.
Trench, Dean, 23, 24, 67, 95.
Trimmer, James, 3.
—— Sarah, 3.
Tuke, Sir John Batty, 340.
Twining, Miss, 24, 65.
Vaccination, 335.
Verrall, Mr. H., 165, 167, 168.
—— Miss A., 241.
Victoria, Queen, 334, 338, 367.
Vincent, Miss, 58, 99.
Wantage, 13, 299.
Wardell, Miss, 23.
Webb, Bishop, 302.
—— Mr. S., 387.
Wedgwood, Mrs., 25, 43.
—— Miss, 22, 350.
Welldon, Miss, 245.
Wellington, Duke of, 83, 108.
Wells, Mrs., 239, 403.
Westcott, Bishop, 206.
Weston, Miss Agnes, 310.
Widgery, Mr., 321.
Wilderspin, Miss, 246.
Wilkinson, Bishop, 186, 281, 286, 374, 377, 378, 380, 382, 383, 385.
Wilson, Rev. C., 40, 41, 58, 102.
—— Mr. E. T., 168.
Winkworth, Miss C., 168.
Withiel, Mrs., 294.
Wood, Lady Page, 24.
—— Miss S., 152, 400, 408.
Woodchester, 331, 338.
Woodhouse, Mrs., 354, 404.
Wordsworth, Miss, 347.
_Work and Play_, 326-329.
Working Men’s College, Cheltenham, 297.
Worsley, Rev. E., 335, 357.
Wright, Dr., 319.
York, 343.
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