biography
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| lived:
| (1827–94)
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| biography:
| British pioneer in women's education, born in London. At the age of 23 she founded the North London Collegiate School for Ladies, and became its head (1850–94) - the first woman to call herself a headmistress. She was immortalized in verse with Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham Ladies' College (‘Miss Buss and Miss Beale, Cupid's darts do not feel’). |
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