DOROTHEA BEALE
FROM A PAINTING BY J. J. SHANNON
Frontispiece
PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
WOMEN
Edited by ETHEL M. BARTON
DOROTHEA BEALE
PRINCIPAL OF THE CHELTENHAM LADIES’ COLLEGE
1858-1906
WITH TWO PORTRAITS
BY
ELIZABETH H. SHILLITO, B.A. (Lond.)
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
“Some there are who go forth to their own life-work with the holyhands of the dead who live laid on their hearts, who feel that theyhave a debt to repay, who see a ray of life from afar cast upon allthey do, and bear about for ever a light within, which they must passon for the sake of the dead who live.”
Edward Thring.
[Pg iii]
Great Souls who sail uncharted seas,
Battling with hostile winds and tide,—
Strong hands that forged forbidden keys,
And left the door behind them wide.
Diggers for gold where most had failed,
Smiling at deeds that brought them Fame,—
Lighters of lamps that have not failed—
Lend us your oil, and share your flame.
[Pg iv]
TO
Dr. ELSIE MAUD INGLIS
WHOSE CRIMEA WAS SERBIA,
BUT WHOSE POST-WAR WORK
IS IN ANOTHER WORLD
[Pg v]
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| Discoveries and enterprises of the Nineteenth Century—Effect on the educational world—Girls’ education in age of Elizabeth and in Nineteenth Century—Protests against the latter—Pioneers of higher education—Our indebtedness to them | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Dorothea Beale—Parentage—Mrs. Cornwallis and her daughter—Their influence on Dorothea Beale—Home life—Early education—School life—Time of self-education—Attitude to games—Reading in early life—Euclid—School in France—Some personal characteristics—Religious and other influences of home | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |