Body was born in
Sedgley in 1866 where her father was the
curate. She was one of the seven children of Louisa Jane and
George Body. In 1883 she was living in Durham with her family until in 1886 she went to
Cheltenham Ladies College to train to become a teacher. She passed her exams and turned down an offer from
Alice Ottley School to return to Cheltenham Ladies College to work under
Dorothea Beale who convinced her that teaching was a "sacred mission". Body moved from
Bishops Stortford to
Torquay in 1930 and she died there in 1952. ==References==