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Roedean School
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One of the country's leading *public schools for girls. It began in a very small way in 1885 when three sisters, Dorothy, Penelope and Millicent Lawrence, opened a school in Brighton with ten pupils, 'six paying and four for show'; the prospectus promised 'a thorough education, physical, intellectual and moral', with the reassurance that 'special pains will be taken to guard against overwork'. Twelve years later (by which time there no fewer than eight Lawrence sisters teaching at the school) the foundation stone was laid for the present building on a commanding site overlooking the sea, between Brighton and Rottingdean.
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