ABSTRACT
In May 1929 Mrs Caroline Peters wrote to the then Headmaster of Ellesmere, Dr Billen, from a Woodard school for girls with boys in the junior school only, requesting a prospectus for his prep school, apparently on the recommendation of her own Headmistress. There were other widows beside Mrs Peters who sent their sons to the school, who did not belong to one of the two women's professions like her and who found it, in some cases, an almost desperate struggle to educate their sons at Ellesmere. Ellesmere College also remained on the fringe of the war, largely untouched by the Blitz, and the frantic activities of the factories, ports and railways engaged in the war effort. There is no evidence that Daisy Dover participated in the kind of discussions of the new society after the war which so fascinated the Mayhew family and which Paul Addison has suggested was a leading topic of conversation in wartime Britain.
