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      The Education of Eleanor Roosevelt - New York Almanack
      • There she established Allenswood Boarding Academy for girls. Her partner was employed as a teacher here (the couple lived together on the school’s premises) and Dorothy Bussy would teach Shakespeare.
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  2. Apr 28, 2015 · An important influence on the intellectual development of many young women, Marie Souvestre founded two influential boarding schools, Les Ruches, in Fountainebleu, France, in 1863, and Allenswood Academy, outside London, in 1870--each of Souvestre's schools served as a "city of ladies," helping shape young girls into independent, forward ...

  3. Allenswood Boarding Academy (also known as Allenswood Academy or Allenswood School) was an exclusive girls' boarding school founded in Wimbledon, London, by Marie Souvestre in 1883 and operated until the early 1950s, when it was demolished and replaced with a housing development.

  4. In 1899, her Grandmother Hall sent her to Allenswood Academy, an exclusive girls' finishing school near London. Allenswood's headmistress was Marie Souvestre, a formidable woman of deep intellect and progressive ideas.

  5. roosevelt.ucsd.edu › about › about-eleanorAbout Eleanor

    When she was a teenager, her grandmother sent her to Allenswood Academy, a boarding school in England. There Eleanor was happy for perhaps the first time. Marie Souvestre, the headmistress of Allenswood Academy, influenced Eleanor on the significance of public duty, and she became Eleanor’s first role model.

  6. Life with Grandmother Hall was confining and lonesome until Eleanor was sent to England to attend Allenswood Academy in London in 1899. There, Eleanor began to study under the tutelage of Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre, a bold, articulate woman whose commitment to liberal causes and detailed study of history played a key role in shaping Eleanor ...

  7. Apr 2, 2023 · She later called her three years at Allenswood Academy the “happiest years of my life.” In later years, however, Eleanor Roosevelt reflected that the greatest regret of her life was her lack of a college education.