Information request
Picture postcard sent by Bray to The Head Mistress, Ladies College, Cheltenham on 19th June 1904 asking for information to be supplied.
The school was founded in 1853 after six individuals, including the Principal and Vice-Principal of Cheltenham College for Boys and four other men, decided to create a girls' school that would be similar to Cheltenham College for Boys. On 13 February 1854, the first 82 pupils began attending the school, with Annie Procter serving as the school's Principal. In 1858, upon Procter resigning from her position, the Principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent suffragist educator who introduced subjects such as maths and science, despite parental opposition, and later founded St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was commemorated by a Cheltenham Civic Society blue plaque in 2017.
This card is signed by Dorothea Beale.
Dorothea Beale LL.D. (21 March 1831 - 9 November 1906) was a suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College and founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
