page_title: Julia Huxley
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Julia Huxley / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Prior's Field School in 1904 copyright claim by school
context_page_description: Julia Arnold later Julia Huxley was a British scholar. She founded Prior's Field School for girls, in Godalming, Surrey in 1902. She came from and had an exceptional family.
context_section_description: Arnold was born in 1862. She was the niece of critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward and the suffrage campaigner Ethel Arnold.
  She met Lewis Carroll as a child and she and her sister Ethel featured in a number of his photographs. Ethel later reported that she enjoyed the attention as a break from her less than happy home life. Ethel was to remain friends with Lewis Carroll as an adult. For Christmas in 1877, Lewis Carroll devised the word game of Doublets for Julia and Ethel. The game was later published by Vanity Fair and by Carroll.
  She went to Somerville College,  Oxford where she was awarded a First in English Literature in 1882. Julia and Leonard Huxley married in 1885.
  Arnold founded in January 1902 a remarkable school which was Prior's Field School for girls, in Godalming, Surrey. The school started with a five-acre (2 ha) plot and a moderately sized house designed by C.F.A. Voysey, Julia Huxley opened her school with herself as head with one boarder, five day girls, Miss English, Mademoiselle Bonnet, a wire-haired terrier and her ​7 ¹⁄₂-year-old son, Aldous. 
  As head she taught her charges to enjoy culture and solitude and to be bibliophiles. She was a clever and talented teacher who had a relaxed discipline.
caption: Prior's Field School in 1904
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