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42: 954: 156:, into a boarding school for girls. The school, whose students were primarily from the European aristocracy and American upper-class, provided a progressive education to its students. Often called a finishing school, Allenswood had a curriculum that included serious study at a time when education was denied to women, and stressed feminist ideals of social responsibility and personal independence. In addition to learning 160:, which was the official language spoken at the school, students studied the arts, dance, history, language (English, German, and Italian), literature, music, and philosophy and were required to develop their own analytical skills to assess ideals and challenges. 1010: 167:, one of Eleanor Roosevelt's classmates and Jeanne Dozat. Gifford and Dozat served as co-principals until 1922, when Gifford left to establish Benfleet Hall, a school based on Souvestre's model, in 1490: 1159: 1495: 716: 322: 1168: 1081: 1152: 1035: 1422: 1500: 751: 1018: 712: 1238: 1145: 1485: 1441: 1480: 1315: 1356: 999: 919: 898: 873: 846: 825: 564: 796: 188: 41: 1290: 1243: 686: 570: 163:
When Souvestre died in 1905, Samaïa became the headmistress until 1909. She was succeeded by Florence Boyce and then in 1916, by
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in 1883 and operated until the early 1950s, when it was demolished and replaced with a housing development.
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Hilda Wynnefred Burkinshaw (1885-1962), who in 1908 married Cuthbert Collingwood Lloyd Fitzwilliams (aka
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Allenswood House was located on a large tract of land between Albert Drive and Wimbledon Park Road, in
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the school had closed by the mid 1950s and the buildings burned down in the late 1950s. The
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Allenswood Academy

Marie Souvestre
Wimbledon, London
Marie Souvestre
Southfields
London Borough of Wandsworth
Tudor Revival style
Marie Souvestre
Paolina Samaïa
French
Helen Gifford
Benhill
Surrey
London County Council
Wandsworth London Borough Council
compulsory purchase
Wimbledon Park Estate
Frances Stevenson
C. C. L. Fitzwilliams
Welsh Guards
Dorothy Bussy, née Strachey
Florence (Ida) Chamberlain
Corinne Alsop Cole, née Robinson
Sibyl, Lady Colefax, née Halsey
Megan Lloyd George
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pernel Strachey
Pippa Strachey
Mien van Wulfften Palthe, née Broese van Groenou

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