[1] Her father died in 1841 and her mother reopened the family's cutlery shop to make a living.
[2] She was encouraged to become a teacher and she opened her own school in 1848 and this made enough money for her to employ her mother as the shop was closed.
[4] By 1860 the school was in a larger building with twenty five boarders paying 100 guineas each per annum.
Pipe considered schools for girls as poor and that the expectation of parents for education for their daughters was unambitous.
Pipe preferred Newnham to Girton as she didn't support Emily Davies' idea that women should take the same courses as men.