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Bedford College School
History It was founded in 1853 as a private school for girls, in association with the new Ladies’ College founded by Elisabeth Jesser Reid Following Mrs Reid’s death in 1866, her three Trustees, Eliza Bostock, Jane Martineau, and Eleanor Smith, closed the School in 1868 after arguments with its headmistress Frances Martin, who was inclined to turn it into an Anglican institution A later attempt to continue it privately (and independently of the Ladies’ College) resulted in the Gower Street School for Girls It no longer exists	What was reforming about it? It was a junior school for the new Ladies’ College, founded partly to help with the financing of this College Where in Bloomsbury It opened in 1853 in 47 Bedford Square It seems to have relocated afterwards to Gower Street Website of current institution It no longer exists	Books about it None found, but there is a short account of its history online at the Victorian Web (opens in new window) Archives None found

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