Frances Mary Buss and her work for education

by Annie E. Ridley

College for Working Women,

London Pupil Teachers’ Association,

University Association for Women Teachers,

Art for Schools Association, and of the

Somerville Club.

She was interested in—

The London Institution,

Governesses’ Benevolent Institution.

Foremost among later works must come the Teachers’ Guild, of which the first origin is due to Miss Buss. Like most things undertaken for or by women, it began on the strictly practical or economic side; though it now embraces the highest ideals of educational possibilities. It is now devoted to securing the best conditions on which the teacher can best grow; but the first start had to deal with the question how the teacher might live at all.

And as we found the germ of all the higher education for girls in the “Report of the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution,” we find ourselves going back to that Report for the origin of the Guild which aims at the highest development of the teacher.