Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dorothea Beale NPG P1700(83d)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by G.H. Martyn & Sons

Pioneer of women's education. Beale was educated in Paris (1847-8) and Queen's College, Harley Street, becoming a mathematical teacher there in 1849, and Head Teacher of the Clergy Daughters' School in Casterton, Westmoreland. She gave impetus to girls' education, acting as principal of Cheltenham Ladies College from 1856 until her death. In 1885, she founded the first training college for secondary women teachers, St Hilda's College, Cheltenham, and St Hilda's Hall, Oxford (which later became St Hilda's College) in 1901. Beale was president of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.