A headmistress at a girls’ grammar school achieves one of her secret ambitions by Sally Cavendish My name is Mrs Helen Dragonard, nee Smith, and I was formerly headmistress of
A girl at a mixed boarding school gets equal treatment by Sally Cavendish My name is Julie Brown. I was born in 1963 and, for most of my schooldays, attended
How strict is the new housemistress? by Sally Cavendish One of the peculiarities of old-fashioned English private schools, given a new lease of life in the Harry Potter stories, was
A girl caned at school has to face the music again at home. by Sally Cavendish The girl strap-hanging between Finsbury Park and Walthamstow on the Victoria Line of the
A school secretary is caught out. By Sally Cavendish “Mrs Wilson? It’s Michele. I’m afraid…” The secretary made a theatrical croaking sound to emphasise the seriousness of her condition. “I’m
Three school secretaries in the 1960s get a nasty shock. By Sally Cavendish One of the reasons girls at the school were so reluctant to get sent to the headmistress,
A retired headmistress finds it hard to abandon her old lifestyle By Sally Cavendish Miss Harriet Stevenson, lately headmistress of a girls’ school in south-east London and now the sole
A girl sentenced to six of the best tries to soften the impact of the cane, with disastrous consequences by Sally Cavendish If the bus depositing 18-year-old Angie Roberts outside
A 1950s housemistress recalls an episode in which a girl forced her to apply the ultimate deterrent. by Sally Cavendish Of all the girls in my house, Celia Charlton was
Caught in the ‘act’, a girl pays the price. by Sally Cavendish It was half-past eleven and most of the residents of the small Sussex market town were already asleep.