Objects of Substance- School Magazine

1913 Dorothy Brockway’s Advertisement

The first page is rather official with the name of the Head Mistress and reads a little like a prospectus. It outlines the curriculum on offer and details that student will be “received in the lower school from the age of eight years, provided that they can read, write legibly from dictation and work example in the four simple rules”. The subjects studied included English, the classics, languages, mathematics, and sciences, physical activities, and the arts. However, the most intriguing offerings were in the lower school which added “Needle Work, Brush Work, Elocution and Morris Dancing”. Morris dancing!? The remainder of the magazine documents the voices of students both past and present. Old girls write o f life after school and at university as if to say, “Come and join us”. The library was