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The next letter was written after an operation Miss Belcher had undergone:—

‘ ... I lingered this morning, and the postman brought me Susan’s cheerful letter, just as I was starting, and I was able to make the service specially a Eucharist on your account. What a wonderful epistle; it is one to feed on. It tells how suffering strengthens the inner man, and enlarges one’s sympathies and makes us know the love of God. And the Gospel tells of renewed life after going down nearly to the grave. You and I can give thanks for both; may St. Paul’s wish be accomplished in us.’

Miss Belcher replied:—

‘_Sunday Evening._

‘MY DEAR MISS BEALE,—My first few lines written by myself must be to you. All through last week the Epistle and your words about it have been such a help. It was just like one of your Scripture lessons every day all to myself. I am still going on so well, but of course it must take time, and I am not out of the wood. Still, as you said, all is well and will be well. Thank you so much for Lilla’s letter. I am so sorry she is not well, and Lucy Soulsby too. I am so rejoiced to hear you are so well and vigorous, and that College is overflowing. How wonderful it all is, and so inspiring.

‘I had begun Archbishop Benson’s _St. Cyprian_ and your book before the operation, but have been too weak to read since. I hope to begin to-morrow. If you have read anything lately you think I should like, will you tell me the names? It must not be philosophy. I hope to have the best papers of the Church Congress read to me....’

Shortly after this Miss Belcher wrote herself on an anticipated visit from another physician:—

‘MY VERY DEAR FRIEND,— ... Dr. Robson of Leeds comes to-morrow. I know you will pray that the “right judgment” will be given. It is thought he will operate, but not certain. Please let Eliza and Susan Draper know. I cannot forget all I owe to you, my friend and guide, of so many years. We have a private celebration to-morrow at eight, but you will not get this in time to think of us.—Ever your loving and grateful friend,

‘M. BELCHER.

‘You shall hear as soon as possible.’

* * * * *

‘_Dearest Marian_,—I have heard from Susan.... Of course we can’t understand, and we only know that all is well. I thought of you so much at prayers this morning. I read the Lesson instead of the Epistle. “The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and there shall no torment touch them.” We missed your accustomed visit on the term holiday yesterday.’

* * * * *

‘_First Sunday in Advent, 1898._

‘MY VERY DEAR MARIAN,—We were all so full of hope at first, and are much disappointed that relief has not come, but that you are still stretched upon the cross. “No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous, yet at such times one can just _think_ of the ‘Mystery of Pain,’ and realise that each sufferer does in uniting his will with God’s in some measure, ‘fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ ... for His body’s sake.’” I think perhaps you may be suffering specially for one, that her faith may be once more awakened. Every sufferer thus “lifted up” does in a measure draw the hearts of others to Him through whom we are able to reveal the power of faith.... I said to Miss Drummond, “I dare say you would not have been spared any of the suffering”; she answered so heartily, “not one half-hour.” We see now what a wonderful work she did among the College boys, and it must be that your suffering is a part of the work God has given you to do for the school, and that you, too, will be enabled to say “not one half-hour,” when the darkness passes away, and the true light shines into the things of earth, and we know as we are known. I know that suffering so _claims_ the attention, but one can only know and believe, not feel it; but it is much to live by faith. Faith is the illuminating power through which alone we truly know. Was not Miss Carter’s suffering felt by you to be mediatorial too, and you are her successor. I shall try to spend a few days with Miss Martin at Christmas.

‘To-day the Jairus window comes before me; the thought of the Lord sending away all those who pressed round the maiden, that she might know the advent of Him who is the Lord and Giver of life.’

The following is the last letter Miss Beale wrote to Miss Belcher:—

‘_December 5, 1898._

‘MY VERY DEAR FRIEND,—I have tried to write several times, but tore up what I wrote. Susan is good in telling me about you, and at times my heart sinks, when I think of all you are suffering, though there do seem to me to be some hopeful signs.... Well, we ought not, I suppose, to wish, we are so sure that “in all our afflictions He is afflicted,” and “the angel of His presence saves us,” and makes our souls strong to bear and our “light affliction is but for a moment.”

‘I dare say this term has seemed to you unending. I think when the strain of thinking about school is taken off, you will feel stronger. I hope to go to Kilburn from January 5 to the 9th; there we shall think much about you. I am just writing about St. Hilda’s East.... Things seem going on well, I think I shall stay there after the Retreat, and try to get more into touch.’

Enclosed in this letter were some verses from Ken’s ‘Midnight Hymn,’ with the words, ‘I thought you might like this if awake at night.’

After Miss Belcher’s death on December 15, 1898, Miss Beale wrote to Miss Strong: ‘Three of my noble-hearted friends gone so lately—Miss Buss, Miss Clarke, and Marian Belcher. The road to the Dark Tower gets lonely, but we look beyond.’

A few letters on general subjects are given. The first of these was written to Miss Susan Wood, in 1897, in reply to an inquiry about women teachers:—

‘I should not like to say I would have none but women teachers. I consider a combination good, better than either men or women only. Still, if a woman is equal in knowledge and ability, I consider she generally teaches better than a man. If all women are ultimately forced to go to the University, the higher teaching will be taken out of their hands, or else women will teach there.’

The following extract, from a letter to Miss Sturge in October 1902, deals with the developments of the College:—

‘The numbers enable us to have an aggregate of schools and to have virtually about seven who might have and ought—Headships elsewhere, had they not an independent sphere of their own.

‘Lastly, are you right in saying that an inspiring personality can be taken away? The inspiration is not from any person who can pass away; we are but the earthen vessels; the light persists and is given just so long as it is needed, to any one who has to give light. The inspiration for the Headship will be given to my successor in turn....

‘I do hope God may allow me to go on longer, and it is a comfort to feel that you are glad I should.

‘As regards the growing size of the College. I may add in addition to what I have said, that I have never wished independently to add to the size merely, and that in each development I have felt I was obliged to go on, though often I dreaded it; _e.g._ the training of teachers could not be refused when Miss Newman offered. Then the Kindergarten grew up, and the elementary teachers was really forced on one. It is unprofitable in money (the Elementary School Department), and a great strain on me, but I feel we have to do this special work. In fact, it is not our work, but we are set here by the great Captain, and I trust we are taking our share in advancing somewhat the kingdom of truth and righteousness. I cannot see that in this erection of buildings, or in any other way, we are acting from self, but under direction. I have not yet read the comments on the buildings, but wanted to reply to the letter at once.’

The following was written to Bishop Fraser of Manchester, who had publicly referred with approbation to the saying of Thucydides, that ‘that woman was most to be admired who was least spoken of whether for good or evil’:—

‘_December 1878._

‘MY LORD,—We owe to you so much for education work that I cannot but feel sorry you should by your recent quotation from Thucydides place before women a standard lower than the highest. I felt bound to protest against it, when a few days later I read a paper before the Social Science Congress in my own schoolroom.

‘Will the excuse be received from us: “I was afraid of being spoken of for good, and so I hid my talent in a napkin?” Must we not expect that our work will be measured, as was that of another woman by the words, “She hath done what she could?” I venture to enclose a few lines from an article of mine, signed “A Utopian,” in a Fraser[106] of 1866. It was provoked by the same quotation from Thucydides in a _Quarterly_ of that year.—I am, my Lord, yours with sincere respect and esteem,

D. BEALE.’

To Mrs. Ashley Smith, at that date Miss Lucy Hall, a relation of Bishop Fraser’s, on the same subject:—

‘_December 12, 1878._

‘DEAR LUCY,—I was glad to hear you thought you could be of use in the Board School. Could you not teach the boys some mathematics? If you could, I will send you an amusing book about Euclid.

‘I have asked Miss Gore to send you a copy of what I wrote to the Bishop. I think he should have got his secretary just to send me a line. I did not do it in a perky spirit, but I felt bound to protest, and having protested, I thought I should rather say to him, why. Many women do leave undone the things they ought to do, because they shrink from coming forward. I have done so myself. If he would preach that we should do what we ought in God’s sight, and never trouble our heads about what people say, when our conscience speaks, it would be better. Perhaps he will think twice before he again quotes that, and if so, I shall be satisfied. I would not care, if he were not so good and clever that people listen to what he says. He is, too, not conventional, yet he says what may promote a wrong kind of conventionality. I have since seen such a nice bit of a sermon about the idle lives that women lead; so if you do see him, I should like you to ask him about this too.

‘You must let me know when you really get to work as manager.’

To Miss Laurie, after reading _Pasteur’s Life_:—

‘_1902._

‘I want to have a general conference about organising our Science work better; we are using razors for stone-cutting. I should like a great deal of the correcting taken from the “Professoriate,” and young specialists entrusted with work under superintendence. Talk with M. Reid and A. Johnson. We ought to let our superior minds “expatiate,” and let me have a few notes, as I can’t talk much now. We might bring up a body of inspirers as well as workers. Pasteur’s life has specially excited me to ask what more we could do. The teachers ought to read more of the lives of discoverers, _e.g._ Lodge (though that is too slight, _History of Matter_, etc. etc.).

‘If there are disadvantages in the London changes, at least I hope we shall get more liberty; let us try to find “a soul of goodness in things evil.”

‘What a beautiful character is Pasteur’s. I find it quite a Sunday book.’

To Miss Nixon, on Henry George’s _Progress and Poverty_:—

‘_April 1884._

‘I am sorry to have given you pain, but I do hope you will read the writings of those who understand political economy better than we do. I think if you had read about the evils which preceded the abolition of the old Poor Law, you would have seen why I cannot approve Mr. George’s plans, and not thought that I desire less than you do that these miseries of the people should be lessened. It is so important for us teachers to try to get right views about history; to pray by our acts that we may have “a right judgment in all things.”

‘It is more pathetic than anything to see people led by false hopes to follow wandering fires to their destruction; and such, I am sure, are some of the new lights. The history of the Crusades and the French Revolution ought not to have been written in vain for us. There are three articles that I think you ought to read,—the Duke of Argyle’s, Mr. Herbert Spencer’s, and Mr. Brodrick’s, in the last _Nineteenth Century_ and _Contemporary_.

‘Reforms I _earnestly_ desire on laws of succession, land transfer, etc. etc., but I am sure that no external bettering of conditions can do good without this is the outcome of right principles, and that people can be raised only by raising the moral standard of all. Perhaps we may have time to talk some day.

To Mr. Coates after a lecture he had given at Cheltenham:—

‘_July 1888._

‘DEAR MR. COATES,— ... What I especially regretted was that the lecture raised a number of questions to which it furnished no answers, but seemed to me to suggest erroneous ones; words were used which were not defined.

‘(1) Persecution; (2) Official dignity; (3) Rights of the individual in relation to the community.

‘(1) Now as regards persecution, you said people could not, if they were in earnest, help persecuting. That was equivalent to the assertion that persecution was right; but you did not say what you understood by persecution. Everything depends on that to girls accustomed to associate persecution with bodily torture. I think what you said would suggest wrong ideas. I can’t agree with your general proposition, but of course I may be wrong.

‘(2) “A Dog in Office” is to me a different being from one who has not been appointed to the charge. He feels it, and I feel it. He respects himself more, and by his “investiture,” though it be only by a costermonger, he becomes capable of acts of which he would otherwise have been incapable, and his bearing, in combination with his legitimate title derived from the owner of the barrow, obtains recognition from all the street curs.

‘I may, of course, be superstitious, but I do regard a consecrated king, a President elected deliberately by a great nation, a man solemnly set apart to serve a church, as in some sense different from others. It seems to me that this is a matter of some importance in these days, when the sacredness of human relationships is called in question. I think we teachers cannot feel too strongly the duty of doing for thought what the feudal lords did for material forces in erecting bulwarks or breakwaters against the floods of undisciplined opinions in question, passion clothed in rags of thought. We want, like the old alchemists, to make the indeterminate clouds of smoke like actual forms.

‘I do not think you and I really differ, but I suppose the fact of my having a little kingdom has aggravated my sense of responsibility, and I can’t help always regarding teaching as purposeful. I hold in abhorrence the maxim “Art for Art’s sake.” I _always_ want it to have a purifying influence on the character. I believe you do the same, only you are afraid of “preaching.”

‘You will be saying, “I wish some one else shared my aversion,” so I will spare you No. 3. I hope you will not misunderstand me.’

To Mrs. Rix:—

‘_January 1891._

‘It is always an anxious thing when people of different nations marry....

‘I hope your good husband will not desert his post. I feel sure these scientific things were given us to prevent our feeling crushed by the weight of the “unintelligible world” of philosophy, and the atonement of science and philosophy is the work of our age—through nature we have to go to find the spiritual Christ. Poor Mr. Lant Carpenter. I wonder if it was the Sphinx who killed him.’

To Sir Joshua Fitch, after the death of Miss Buss:—

‘_July (?) 1897._

‘I have been thinking what I could write to you about Miss 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.

APPENDIX D, p. 90

PROSPECTUS OF THE CHELTENHAM COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES

NOVEMBER 1, 1853

PROSPECTUS

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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