It remains but to add one word on my gratitude for the unfailing kindness and generous help of those who have read this book in manuscript and proof; to Mrs. Reynolds and Miss Bertha Synge; to Miss Helen Cunliffe who undertook the somewhat wearisome task of deciphering the diaries, and, lastly, to Miss Alice Andrews, whose name Miss Beale associated with mine when she asked me to write a History of the College.

ELIZABETH RAIKES.

June 2, 1908.

CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I.Childhood[1]
II.Queen’s College[17]
III.Casterton[36]
IV.An Interval[60]
V.Cheltenham[81]
VI.Early History of the Ladies’ College[108]
VII.A Royal Commission[134]
VIII.Organisation[158]
IX.De Profundis[179]
X.The Guild[203]
XI.St. Hilda’s Work[226]
XII.Teacher and Principal[254]
XIII.Parerga[286]
XIV.Honours[312]
XV.The Last Term[349]
XVI.Letters[371]
Index[427]