DOROTHY LOFTUS (BRITISH, 1875-1943)

Footnote
Lucy Mary Silcox was a pioneering headmistress and feminist.  Her first headteacher role came in 1890 at the Liverpool High School for Girls.  She moved to West Dulwich High School for Girls in 1900 and took on her final headship at St Felix School, Southwold in 1908.  She acquired works by leading modernists including Christopher Wood and hung them at school.  This provided inspiration to pupils including Gwyneth Johnstone who went on to study at The Slade School of Art and became a member of The London Group as well as The Women's International Art Club.  Silcox was also President of the local National Union of Women's Suffrage Society and was described by civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers as 'one of the greatest headmistresses of all time.'