Cheltenham Ladies' College

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The Cheltenham Ladies' College was founded in 1853 as a school for women. It is situated in Cheltenham, a spa town in the English Cotswolds. Today, it takes girls aged 11 to 18 as boarding or day pupils.

In 1858 the Principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent Suffragette educator who also founded St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Ms. Beale kept this post until her death in 1906, and transformed the school from a small establishment concentrating on developing womens' accomplishments in music, sewing & drawing for example, into the first academic school offering courses equivalent to those in mens' schools - like mathematics and English.

A verse from the time of Ms Beale runs:

Miss Buss and Miss Beale

Cupid’s darts do not feel.

How different from us,

Miss Beale and Miss Buss.

(Her friend Frances Buss was the head of the North London Collegiate School.)

External links

[The Cheltenham Ladies' College website]

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