Clergy Daughters’ School at Casterton--Hasty acceptance of post there--Beautiful situation of school--Evils--Personal difficulties--Mr. Beale’s letters--Dorothea Beale’s dress and appearance--Thoughts of resignation--Father’s advice--Appeal to committee--Suspicions of High Church tendencies--Determination to resign--Notice from committee--Acknowledged indebtedness to the school--Appreciation--Work at home--History of England begun--Spartan habits--Some philanthropic work--Offer of service--Dawning conviction of real vocation--Her diary begun--Extracts--Time of waiting--Religious life and beliefs 16 CHAPTER V. Cheltenham Ladies’ College--Early history--The first Principals--Advertisement for new Principal--Dorothea Beale candidate--Tributes to character and ability--Alleged High Church tendencies--Declaration of belief--Time of anxiety--Appointment as Principal--Work at Ladies’ College--Personal appearance at this time--Rule of silence--Precarious financial position of school--Practice of economy--Question of renewing lease of Cambray House--Mr. Brancker--His wise policy and administration--Some reminiscences--The Fight against ignorance and prejudice--Dorothea Beale’s inspiring leadership 27 CHAPTER VI. Blue Book Report on condition of girls’ education--Dorothea Beale’s evidence and theories with regard to women as teachers; effects of higher education on health; idleness and health; the teaching of music--Modern ideas on the teaching of this subject 38 CHAPTER VII. Rearrangement of school hours at the Ladies’ College--Opposition met and overcome--Gradual breaking down of prejudice--Gossip and disloyalty--Dorothea Beale’s gift of inspiring loyalty--Miss Belcher--Death of Dorothea Beale’s father--How she spent holidays--Singleness of aim--Idea of Sisterhood of Teachers--Expansion of Cheltenham College--Opposition to a new building--Dr. Jex Blake’s plea--Farewell to Cambray House--Continued growth--College incorporated under Companies’ Acts--Boarding houses made an intrinsic part of College--Defining of Principal’s powers--Cambray House again 43 CHAPTER VIII. Cheltenham College magazine started--Dorothea Beale, editor--Her “silver wedding”--“Old Girls’” Gift--Scheme of Guild put forward and carried out--Emblem--Opening address--Dorothea Beale’s remembrance of former pupils--Miss Newman’s work--Continued after her death--St. Hilda’s, Oxford--St. Hilda’s, East London--Dorothea Beale’s attitude to charitable enterprises 51 CHAPTER IX.