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The Shipley School is an independent pre-K–12 college preparatory school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 10 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia. History Hannah Shipley, Elizabeth Shipley, and Katharine Shipley, all sisters, founded The Shipley School in 1888 as a preparatory school for Bryn Mawr College, a women's college located directly across the street. The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, highly educated Quaker women who created the school to pass on their values to similarly minded young women. The school opened in the fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members. By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students. At this time, about half of all Upper School students were boarders hailing from all over the country and from Europe, Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and Latin America. During the 1970s and 1980s, Shipley discontinued its boarding department and began to admit male students. The last boarders graduated in 1982, and by 1984 the school was fully coeducational with equal numbers of girls and boys. Campus The Shipley School has three divisions: Lower School (pre-kindergarten through grade 5), Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and Upper School (grades 9 through 12). Notable alumni Robb Armstrong, author of Jump Start comic strip Gavin Becker, American singer, songwriter and actor David Corenswet, American actor, screenwriter, and producer Alice Elliot Dark, American writer Lydia Denworth, award-winning science writer and contributing editor for Scientific American Helen Fisher, anthropologist Tad Friend, journalist Jessica Knoll, author Victoria Legrand, of the dream pop duo Beach House Dave Lieberman, chef and physician Marshmello, American electronic music producer/DJ Madeline Miller, author Pamela Miller, American politician, first woman mayor of Lexington, Kentucky Vinton Liddell Pickens, American county planner and artist Roxana Robinson, American novelist and biographer Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 Nancy Schwartzman, documentary filmmaker and author Nancy Talbot, American businesswoman Sarah Megan Thomas, American actor, writer, and film maker Dana Veraldi, artist Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex activist and writer Beatrice Wood, artist and studio potter Heads of School Hannah, Elizabeth, and Katharine Shipley, 1894–1916 Alice Howland and Eleanor Brownell, 1916–1941 Mildred and J. Russell Lynes, 1941–1944 Margaret Bailey Speer, 1944–1965 Isota Tucker Epes ’36, 1965–1972 Nancy E. Lauber, 1972–1979 Frederic L. Chase III, 1979–1985 Gary R. Gruber, 1985–1992 Steve Piltch, 1992–2019 Michael G. Turner, 2019–present References. Discover the Lydia Denworth popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lydia Denworth books.