VII. LIFE AT MYRA LODGE 181 VIII. EARLY EDUCATIONAL IDEALS 200 IX. PRACTICAL WORK 215 X. THE HEAD-MISTRESSES’ 231 ASSOCIATION XI. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR WOMEN 252 XII. TRAINING COLLEGES FOR TEACHERS 273 XIII. GENERAL INTERESTS 287 BOOK III. LATER YEARS. I. IN THE HOLIDAYS 309 II. ROME 321 III. SOCIAL LIFE 336 IV. FRIENDSHIPS 349 V. REST 366 VI. “AND HER WORKS DO FOLLOW HER” 379 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE FRANCES M. BUSS Frontispiece FRANCES M. BUSS IN 1860 AND 1872 87 THE LOWER SCHOOL 131 THE GREAT HALL, NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE 162 SCHOOL FOR GIRLS THE GYMNASIUM, NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE 200 SCHOOL FOR GIRLS NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 214 MISS BUSS AND DR. SOPHIE BRYANT 273 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ERRATA. Page 1, line 2, for “July 29” read “July 18.” Page 29, line 12, for “lighted” read “lifted.” Page 39, line 25, for “to play” read “for play.” Page 111, line 27, for “lady on” read “lady in.” ● Transcriber’s Note: ○ These corrections have been applied to this electronic version of the book—Oct. 25, 2019. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTORY. THEN AND NOW. “Educate women, and you educate the teachers of men; if the child is father to the man, the woman forms the man in educating the child. The cause of female education is then, even in the most selfish sense, the cause of mankind at large.”—C. G. NICOLAY. Gracious speech can seldom have been more truthful than when the Prince of Wales said, on July 18, 1879, that few of their many public functions had afforded the Princess and himself more gratification than the opening of the great hall, given by the Clothworkers’ Company to the North London Collegiate School for Girls, a ceremony putting the final touch to the work of so many years.