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Elizabeth Raikes. Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham
Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II. QUEEN’S COLLEGE
CHAPTER III. CASTERTON
CHAPTER IV. AN INTERVAL
CHAPTER V. CHELTENHAM
CHAPTER VI. EARLY HISTORY OF THE LADIES’ COLLEGE
CHAPTER VII. A ROYAL COMMISSION
CHAPTER VIII. ORGANISATION
CHAPTER IX. DE PROFUNDIS
CHAPTER X. THE GUILD
CHAPTER XI. ST. HILDA’S WORK
CHAPTER XII. TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL
CHAPTER XIII. PARERGA
CHAPTER XIV. HONOURS
CHAPTER XV. THE LAST TERM
CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX A, Page 28
APPENDIX B, Page 74. TITLES OF CHAPTERS IN MISS BEALE’S TEXTBOOK 1858
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
APPENDIX E, Page 332. Edward Beale
APPENDIX F, Page 368
INDEX
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Elizabeth Raikes
Published by Good Press, 2019
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This unwearied study was no accumulation of knowledge for its own sake, it was the outcome of a true if youthful admiration for what was noble and good. ‘I worshipped for years Isabella of Castile. Sir James Stephen’s essay on George the Third filled my imagination with magnificent visions; his Port Royalists were my ideal characters; especially was Pascal a hero, I read and re-read his Life and Provincial Letters.’[15]
Pascal’s life perhaps breathed for her a spirit of emulation. ‘I borrowed a Euclid, and without any help read the first six books, carefully working through the whole of the fifth, as I did not know what was usually done. It did not occur to me to ask my father for lessons in such subjects.’[16] She also made some way with algebra, and calculated for herself the distance to the moon. Much time, she owned, was wasted by working alone. But the very difficulties proved a source of help, showing her the value of knowledge acquired by effort and search, as opposed to mere information received from another. In all her reading she received both help and sympathy from her aunt, Elizabeth Complin, who herself understood Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, had considerable taste for mathematics, and was fond of philosophy. She was one of the first subscribers to Mudie’s. The London Library was also a mine of wealth to the young readers.
