History
It was founded by Lucy Harrison as a private school for girls, independent from the Ladies’ College, after the collapse of Bedford College School in 1868
Lucy Harrison became its Head in 1875, and the School flourished (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
Lucy Harrison resigned as Head in 1885 due to ill-health, and was succeeded by her friend, lover, and biographer Amy Greener (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Lucy Harrison)
Its most famous pupil was Charlotte Mew (Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon eds, Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II, 2001)
Another notable alumna was Maud Ellen Brimmell, Lady Almoner at the Royal Free Hospital from 1899 until her death in 1908 (The Times, 11 July 1908)
It disappeared some time in the late nineteenth century
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What was reforming about it?
It was associated with the move towards university-level education for women
Where in Bloomsbury
It was founded in Gower Street in the late 1860s and remained there until it ceased to exist in the late nineteenth century
It may have been at no. 80 Gower Street, which was the address of Lucy Harrison in the 1870s (first Annual Report, College for Working Women, 1875)
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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Books about it
There is a short account of its history online at the Victorian Web (opens in new window)
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