Good as boys
Penelope Fitzgerald, 15 August 1991
The Best Type of Girl: A History of the Girls’ Independent Schools
by Gillian Avery.
Deutsch, 410 pp., £20, January 1991,0 233 98642 1 Show More
by Gillian Avery.
Deutsch, 410 pp., £20, January 1991,
There’s something about a convent girl
edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan.
Virago, 217 pp., £4.99, January 1991,1 85381 308 7 Show More
edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan.
Virago, 217 pp., £4.99, January 1991,
“... You don’t remember the lessons, you remember the teachers. At the heart of Gillian Avery’s book are the distant, half-familiar figures of extraordinary women, pioneers: Frances Buss of North London Collegiate, Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham, Frances Dove of Wycombe Abbey, Lydia Rous of The Mount. ‘A pupil at The Mount remembered saying loudly: “Well, I hate her ... ”
