7 SEPTEMBER 2018
TERM 3 • 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 • VOLUME 307
From the Principal Mrs Nicola Taylor
Bathsua Makin is possibly a name you have not heard much about, after all, who could forget a name such as Bathsua! This term in the Senior School Assembly I have been sharing the story of MAD Women – Women who Make A Difference – women such as Ronnie Kahn, founder of Oz Harvest, Nancy Bird-Walton, Angel of the Outback, Marie Curie, Scientist and Nobel Prize winner. Women who each from humble circumstances, or against prevailing challenge, have made a difference that millions around the world have benefited from. Bathsua Makin was one such MAD Woman. She was born in England in 1612, at a time when women were considered chattels, ignorant, so discouraged from reading, studying and thinking independently. Not so Bathsua Makin who thought that if the problem was ignorance, then women should be educated, for unlike many of the women of her day, she was well educated having attended her father’s school in London. As a scholar of Greek, Latin, French and English, Bathsua excelled. Married at 19, Bathsua raised a family of 8 children. She was also a working mother serving in the Royal Court as a tutor to the young children of the Aristocrats. Shortly before the birth of her 8th child, Bathsua was asked to tutor the young Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I. Around 1670, aged in her late sixties, she opened a school for girls in Tottenham London, a project she was very proud of. continues next page... continued on Page 2...
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