“Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on…”

Jane Austen writing to her niece, Anna Lefroy

I came across this quote a long time ago and it’s never left me – the idea of working with a small group of people. This grew into Gilbert House School and the female teachers who live at Stour (regardless of whether they get on or not).
This is Gilbert House School in the 1920s.
This is an insert of the main building.
Below is Gilbert House School today.
This is an insert of the main building today.
And this is the the world they live in.