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“What a comfort & pleasure it was to me to meet a girl with so much intellectual quality & such strong reserves of noble sentiment,” he wrote, adding that he hoped they would lay the foundations of a “frank & clear-eyed friendship” with “many serious feelings of respect.”

Friendship Pleasure Comfort Intellectual Respect

Book:Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Encouraged by her headmistress Beatrice Harris, whose embrace of feminine independence and suffragist views would have an enduring influence on Clementine, she was secretly nursing dreams of academia.”

Dream Independence Feminine Encourage

Book:Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“Clementine was welcomed back to her old school by the headmistress, Beatrice Harris, who had imbued her with ideas of female independence. Clementine never forgot her encouragement and example.”

Female Independence Encourage

Book:Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

“The more independent Sarah had inherited some of her father’s toughness and seemed better able to cope with being a Churchill. Funny, beautiful and at ease with the rich and famous around her.”

Funny Beautiful Rich Tough Independent Famous

Book:Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill