Dorothea Beale: Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1858-1906

by Elizabeth Helen Shillito

DOROTHEA BEALE
FROM A PAINTING BY J. J. SHANNON
Frontispiece

PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
WOMEN

Edited by ETHEL M. BARTON

DOROTHEA BEALE

PRINCIPAL OF THE CHELTENHAM LADIES’ COLLEGE
1858-1906

WITH TWO PORTRAITS

BY
ELIZABETH H. SHILLITO, B.A. (Lond.)

LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920

“Some there are who go forth to their own life-work with the holy hands of the dead who live laid on their hearts, who feel that they have a debt to repay, who see a ray of life from afar cast upon all they do, and bear about for ever a light within, which they must pass on for the sake of the dead who live.”