Marie Souvestre
Marie Souvestre was a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women.
She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist mile Souvestre. She founded the girls boarding schools Les Ruches in Fontainebleau, France, where writer Natalie Clifford Barney and her sister Laura Clifford Barney were later educated, and Allenswood, in Wimbledon, outside London, where her most famous pupil was Eleanor Roosevelt, for whom she became a maternal figure. Eleanor was so greatly influenced by Souvestre and her feminist beliefs, that she went on to forge a political career.
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