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See also:BEALE, DOROTHEA (1831-1906) , See also:English schoolmistress, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:March 1831 in See also:London, her See also:father being a physician of See also:good See also:family and cultivated tastes. She had already shown a strong intellectual See also:bent and considerable force of See also:character when in 1848 she was one of the first to attend lectures at the newly opened See also:Queen's See also:College for Ladies, London, and from 1849 to 1856 she herself took classes there. In 1857
for a few months she became See also:head teacher of the See also:Clergy Daughters' school at Casterton, Westmoreland, but narrow religious prejudices on the See also:part of the See also:governors led to her retirement. In 1858 she was appointed See also:principal of the Ladies College at See also:Cheltenham (opened 1854), then in very See also:low See also:water. Her tact and strenuousness, backed by able See also:financial management, led to its success being thoroughly established by 1864, and as the college increased in See also:numbers new buildings were erected from 1873 onwards. Under See also:Miss Beale's headship it See also:grew into one of the See also:great girls' See also:schools of the See also:country, and its development and example played an important part in the revolution effected in regard to the higher See also:education of See also:women. Miss Beale retained her See also:post till her See also:death on the 9th of See also:November 1906. Strongly religious by nature, broad-minded and keenly interested in all branches of culture, she exercised a far-reaching See also:influence on her pupils.
Her See also:Life was written by See also:Elizabeth See also:Raikes (1908).
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