1st Edition
How Different From Us A Biography of Miss Buss and Miss Beale
By Josephine Kamm
Copyright 2012
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface. 1. ‘A Revolutionary Paradox’ 2. ‘Mrs Buss Begs to Announce...’ 3. A Devious Route 4. Miss Buss and Miss Beale. 5. A Democratic Education. 6. The Ladies’ College. 7. The Schools’ Inquiry Commission. 8. The Outcome. 9. The Struggle for Endowments. 10. ‘Some Say Our School Is Church-like’ 11. ‘A Terribly Faithful Letter’ 12. ‘This Great Day in our Annals’. 13. ‘Forsake Me Not!’ 14. Boarding-house Problems. 15. Additional Works. 16. Old Pupils. 17. The Guild and the Old Pupils’ Association. 18. Likenesses and Contrasts. 19. Last Years. 20. ‘A Profound Sense of Congruity.’ Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Josephine Kamm
