Complex sentence: Dame Cumming Gordon, the accuser's a wealthy and powerful grandmother, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the boarding school and within days the school was deserted and the two women had been deprived of their livelihood.
Split into simpler sentences: Dame Cumming Gordon, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the boarding school. Within days, the school was deserted and the two women deprived of their livelihood.