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May 24, 2021 · The Thick Of It and W1A actress Joanna Scanlan has said her girls boarding school did not provide her with “the life skills required to support my adult life”.
May 9, 2016 · Girls disappearing overnight from boarding schools, especially young heiresses fleeing with unsuitable men, became an easily understood trope in the public imagination. There were regular newspaper reports of elopements from boarding schools but, in truth, many were not what they seemed.
May 15, 2021 · Because of this, parents who did wish their daughters to attend boarding school put a great deal of time and effort into choosing the right one. Most girls, however, were taught either in a schoolroom at home, at day schools, or later in the century by governesses.
- Prominent Presence, Quiet Purpose
- Refuge, Education, Reform
- Its Era Ends
- Online Exhibit: History and Pictures
Originally known as Our Lady of the Woods — later the Convent of the Good Shepherd and then Girls’ Town — this highly visible edifice was part of a complex that included school buildings, industrial training facilities and housing for nuns and resident girls. When established by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Girls’ Town property was isolate...
The roots of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd reach back to the mid-17th century, when Father Jean Eudes, founder of the Order of Our Lady of Charity in Caen, France, established his order’s Houses of Refuge for “wayward” (i.e., “fallen” and delinquent) women and girls. Though the houses were destroyed during the French Revolution, a Catholic nun, ...
Girls’ Town remained open until the early 1970s. Though various proposals called for repurposing the land and buildings, the property was eventually sold to St. Xavier High School, located across North Bend Road from the site, and most of the structures were demolished in 2001. Athletic fields and parking lots now occupy the site. Almost all of the...
The online exhibit, which features just a sampling of the documents and photos discovered in the research process, opened July 28 and will be accessible indefinitely. It also contains photos of two of the chapel’s windows and other remnants housed at a retirement home in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The windows have since been installed in a church in Mo...
The timeline highlights early instances of women's education, such as the establishment of girls' schools and women's colleges, as well as legal reforms like compulsory education laws that have had a significant impact on women's access to education.
Mar 29, 2021 · And so, in the first week of January, his parents drove him seven hours to Western Reserve Academy, a boarding school in Hudson, Ohio, which he entered as a junior, giving him a chance to...
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May 23, 2021 · The actress and writer said she did not grow up while at school.
