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Dame Jane Frances Dove, DBE, JP (27 June 1847 – 21 June 1942) was an English women's campaigner, who founded the girls' schools, Wycombe Abbey and Godstowe. Early life and education [ edit ] Born in Bordeaux , France, the eldest of ten children of Revd.
The school was founded in 1896 by Dame Frances Dove (1847–1942), who was previously headmistress of St Leonards School in Scotland. Its present capacity is approximately 650 girls, aged 11 to 18. [5] The current headmistress is Jo Duncan. The school is on a 69 hectare campus in central High Wycombe.
Frances Dove est éduquée à domicile avec ses frères, par leur père. Lorsque son père est nommé curé de la paroisse de Cowbit, dans le Lincolnshire , elle est pensionnaire durant une année, mais elle ne s'y plaît pas du tout et rentre au domicile familial à Cowbit, où elle suit l'éducation de ses jeunes frères et sœurs et aide dans la paroisse [ 1 ] .
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
27 de jun. de 2021 · Dame Jane Frances Dove DBE, JP was an English women’s campaigner and pioneer for female education, founding Wycombe Abbey and Godstowe School. “She was born to be a pioneer and had the real pioneering spirit as well as some of the faults that so often go with it. She was…
by Lafayette, 1928. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Dove, Dame (Jane) Frances ( 1847–1942 ), founder of Wycombe Abbey School, was born at Bordeaux, France, on 27 June 1847, the eldest of the ten children of the Revd John Thomas Dove (1821–1906), vicar of Cowbit, Lincolnshire, for more than forty years, and chairman of the Spalding ...
By Willie Reid When Frances Dove died in 1942 she not only had founded Wycombe Abbey, which became one of the most successful and prestigious girls' schools in England, but she had also: • Helped to set-up the first girls' preparatory school • Become the first female Wycombe town councillor, in 1907 • Set-up the Central Aid Society to ...
