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DOROTHEA BEALE OF CHELTENHAM


[Illustration: _Photo. J. C. Hughes_

_Dorothea Beale_

_from the portrait by J. J. Shannon._]


DOROTHEA BEALE OF CHELTENHAM

by

ELIZABETH RAIKES


Illustrated






London
Archibald Constable
and Company Ltd.
1908

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty




TO ‘HER CHILDREN’




PREFACE


Miss Beale left ample materials for the