Queenwood Ladies' College was a

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for girls, opened on a

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overlooking the

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Eastbourne Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the l ...

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, England. It was opened in 1871 by a Mrs Lawrance, the mother of Miss Grace Lawrance, founder of

Queenwood School for Girls Queenwood School for Girls, often abbreviated as Queenwood, is a multi-campus independent non-denominational Christian co-educational primary and secondary day school for girls, located in the suburb of Mosman, on the Lower North Shore of Sydne ...

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. At this time the town was just beginning a period of growth and prosperity and seeing the arrival of many other private schools, thanks to its reputation for health, enhanced by bracing air and sea breezes. Dorothea Petrie Townshend Carew wrote a book about the school.

Notable former pupils

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, actress * Dorothea Petrie Townshend Carew, writer * Nellie Kirkham, historian, artist and writer * Minoo Moshiri, translator, writer

References

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