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Robert Harris Archer (1812 - 1875) was a native of Harford County, Maryland. He was a graduate of West Point and resigned from the army in late 1837. In the 1840s he started a girls' school in Baltimore. He ran girls' schools the rest of his life. This Robert H. Archer is sometimes confused with his first cousin, Robert H. Archer (1820 - 1878).
A finishing school focuses on teaching young women social graces and upper-class cultural rites as a preparation for entry into society. [1] [2] [3] The name reflects the fact that it follows ordinary school and is intended to complete a young woman's education by providing classes primarily on deportment, etiquette, and other non-academic subjects.
A women's college offers an academic curriculum exclusively or primarily, while a girls' or women's finishing school (sometimes called a charm school) focuses on social graces such as deportment, etiquette, and entertaining; academics if offered are secondary.
1772: Little Girls' School (now Salem College) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was originally established as a primary school. It later became an academy (high school) and finally a college. It is the oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college and the oldest female institution in the Southern United States.
Gunston Hall School was an American private women's finishing school located in Washington, D.C. It was established by Beverley Randolph Mason and his wife in 1892. The school closed in 1942 due to World War II .
Stevens – The Institute of Business & Arts got its start in 1947 as the St. Louis affiliate of Patricia Stevens, a modeling and “finishing” school for young women. Patricia Stevens herself was a working fashion model, and there were many schools bearing her name around the country, but the one in St. Louis was operated by the Klute family.
Sara Jane Ho (Chinese: 何佩蓉) is a Chinese educator, socialite, [1] and founder of Institute Sarita, a Beijing finishing school established in 2013. [2] [3] She is the etiquette expert for the 2022 Netflix series Mind Your Manners. [4] The New York Times has described her as a representation of the new "Superrich" in China. [5]
Lucie Clayton College was founded by Sylvia Lucie Golledge in 1928 as a modelling agency and finishing school.It was bought by Leslie Kark who owned a successful model directory.