Sublime

Marie Souvestre, the founder and headmistress, was the daughter of the French philosopher and novelist Émile Souvestre. A committed feminist, she believed passionately in educating women to think for themselves, to challenge accepted wisdom, and to assert themselves. These were subversive doctrines to patriarchal Victorians, yet Allenwood succeeded

She was a woman who had retained the simplicity of earlier life even as she had surpassed its limitations.” Susan B. Anthony was what she championed. She had become, through her own practice, the New True Woman.

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,