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Allenswood Boarding Academy (also known as Allenswood Academy or Allenswood School) was an exclusive girls' boarding school founded in Wimbledon, London, by Marie Souvestre in 1883 and operated until the early 1950s, when it was demolished and replaced with a housing development.
21 de abr. de 2020 · In 1899, her grandmother send the young girl to London to further her education. Her choice of school was Allenswood Academy. There had been previous contact between Souvestre and the Roosevelt family. Anna Roosevelt, Eleanor’s aunt, had briefly been a pupil at Les Ruches.
When she was a teenager, her grandmother sent her to Allenswood Academy, a boarding school in England. There Eleanor was happy for perhaps the first time. Marie Souvestre, the headmistress of Allenswood Academy, influenced Eleanor on the significance of public duty, and she became Eleanor’s first role model.
Allenswood Boarding Academy (también conocida como Allenswood Academy o Allenswood School) fue un exclusivo internado para niñas fundado en Wimbledon, Londres por Marie Souvestre en 1870 y funcionó hasta principios de la década de 1950, cuando fue demolido y reemplazado por un desarrollo de viviendas.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), one of the most influential wives of any American President, spent three years as a pupil at the exclusive Allenswood Academy finishing school for girls in Albert Road (now Albert Drive), near Wimbledon Park.
In 1899, her Grandmother Hall sent her to Allenswood Academy, an exclusive girls' finishing school near London. Allenswood's headmistress was Marie Souvestre, a formidable woman of deep intellect and progressive ideas. Eleanor flourished at Allenswood. She described her years there as the "happiest of my life."
Marie Souvestre (28 April 1830 – 30 March 1905) was an educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women. [1] She founded a school in France and when she left the school with one of her teachers she founded Allenswood Academy in London.
