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Allenswood Boarding Academy (also known as Allenswood Academy or Allenswood School) was an exclusive girls' boarding school founded in Wimbledon, London, by Marie Souvestre in 1883 and operated until the early 1950s, when it was demolished and replaced with a housing development.
- 1870
- Boarding
- Girls
- Marie Souvestre
21 apr 2020 · There she established Allenswood Boarding Academy for girls. Her partner was employed as a teacher here (the couple lived together on the school’s premises) and Dorothy Bussy would teach Shakespeare.
When she was a teenager, her grandmother sent her to Allenswood Academy, a boarding school in England. There Eleanor was happy for perhaps the first time. Marie Souvestre, the headmistress of Allenswood Academy, influenced Eleanor on the significance of public duty, and she became Eleanor’s first role model.
Souvestre recognized ER's hidden strengths, helped her gain confidence, and awakened her social conscience. This "extraordinary character," ER recalled, "exerted perhaps the greatest influence on my girlhood." In 1902, Eleanor reluctantly came home from Allenswood to make her debut in New York society. Her formal education was over.
12 ott 2012 · Nostalgia. Merton. Wimbledon. By The Wimbledon Society. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), one of the most influential wives of any American President, spent three years as a pupil at the exclusive Allenswood Academy finishing school for girls in Albert Road (now Albert Drive), near Wimbledon Park.
She founded the girls' boarding schools Les Ruches ("the beehives") in Fontainebleau, France, where writer Natalie Clifford Barney and her sister Laura Clifford Barney were later educated, and Allenswood Boarding Academy, in Wimbledon, outside London, where her most famous pupil was Eleanor Roosevelt.
2 apr 2023 · Allenswood Girl’s Academy, Wimbledon Common, London, England, (1898-1902). Run by Marie Souvestre, who Eleanor Roosevelt later identified as the first greatest influence on her educational and emotional development, she was taught French, German, Italian, English literature, composition, music, drawing, painting and dance.
