Dorothea Beale
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Teaching, Teachers, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Combining business acumen, reform enthusiasm, and mystical idealism, Beale shaped an educational breakthrough with her advocacy of intellectual training for girls.
Early Life
Born on March 21, 1831, in Bishopsgate, London, England, one of eleven children, Dorothea Beale owed some of her success as a pioneer in the field of women’s education to familial tradition. Her mother, Dorothea Margaret Complin, came from a family of literary women who included feminist writer Caroline Francis Cornwallis. Her father, Miles Beale, a surgeon,...
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