Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Bar Convent School
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5 November 1686: Mother Frances Bedingfield (using, for safety,...
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5 November 1686
Mother Frances Bedingfield
(using, for safety, the alias Frances Long) signed the contract for the purchase of property on the site of the present Bar Convent
in York, to use as a girls' school
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Gregory, M., and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mother Mary Davies to Isobel Grundy. 19 Apr. 2002.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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13 November 1735: Mother Mary Davis took office as Procuratrix...
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13 November 1735
Mother Mary Davis
took office as Procuratrix (i.e. domestic bursar or housekeeper) of the Bar Convent School
in York, and began a sort of log book in which she and her successors kept detailed...
