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Apr 21, 2020 · 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Dorothy Bussy, the sister of writer Lytton Strachey, anonymously published a novel, Olivia (1949), about her experience as a pupil at Les Ruches, describing the protagonist's crush on the headmistress Mlle. Julie (i.e., Souvestre). Bussy later taught Shakespeare at Allenswood.
