Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Marie Souvestre (28 April 1830 - 30 March 1905) was a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women.She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist Émile Souvestre. She founded the girls' boarding schools Les Ruches (\"the beehives\") 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.Dorothy Bussy, the sister of writer Lytton Strachey, anonymously published a novel, Olivia (1949), about her experience as a pupil at Les Ruches, describing the protagonist's crush on the headmistress Mlle. Julie (i.e., Souvestre). Bussy later taught Shakespeare at Allenswood."@en }
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- Marie_Souvestre abstract "Marie Souvestre (28 April 1830 - 30 March 1905) was a feminist educator who sought to develop independent minds in young women.She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist Émile Souvestre. She founded the girls' boarding schools Les Ruches (\"the beehives\") 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.Dorothy Bussy, the sister of writer Lytton Strachey, anonymously published a novel, Olivia (1949), about her experience as a pupil at Les Ruches, describing the protagonist's crush on the headmistress Mlle. Julie (i.e., Souvestre). Bussy later taught Shakespeare at Allenswood.".