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| 文章出处：网友投稿 发布时间：2005-10-11 |
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Royal Holloway, University of London stands as a monument to two Victorian visionaries, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway. Both played a crucial role in the development of equality in education through the creation of two colleges for women, Bedford College in London, and the Royal Holloway College in Surrey, 19 miles to the west of central London. Their foresight and philanthropy have ensured opportunities for many generations of students.
Elizabeth Jesser Reid, a pioneering social reformer, founded Bedford College in 1849 as a women’s college. Its location in Bedford Square was expensive and restricting, and the struggle to provide suitable accommodation for a continually expanding but financially under-endowed establishment led to a number of moves in central London, before finding a base in Regent’s Park in 1913. The College remained here until the time of the merger with Royal Holloway College in 1985. Bedford College was the very first institution to have played a leading role not only in the advancement of women in higher education, but also in public life in general.
Thomas Holloway was a self-made multi-millionaire whose fortune had been made in patent medicines. He founded Royal Holloway College in 1879 after initiating a public debate inviting suggestions as to ’How best to spend a quarter of a million or more’. It was his wife Jane who suggested a college for women as the means by which Holloway’s money might effect ’the greatest public good’. Holloway’s first great philanthropic enterprise, the Sanatorium at Virginia Water opened in 1885. The second, Royal Holloway College, largely inspired by the Chateau of Chambord in the Loire Valley, was opened by Queen Victoria in 1886. Built around two quadrangles, today it continues to impress a much by its size as by the exuberance of the roofline with its many towers and turrets. As solid as it is extravagant, it epitomises the wealth, optimism and spirit of philanthropy so characteristic of the Victorian age. It continues to provide a home for the Royal Holloway Collection - a Picture Gallery of Victorian art that was the final touch to Holloway’s generous endowment.
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