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The education papers : women's quest for equality in Britain, 1850-1912

First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuable record of women's struggle for education in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Print Book, English, 2011
Routledge, London, 2011
History
1 volume ; 23 cm.
9780415606363, 0415606365
751527427
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Mental Differences between Men and Women, George J. Romanes; Chapter 3 Founding of Queen’s College; Chapter 4 An American School, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; Chapter 5 The Education of Women, and how it would be Affected by University Examinations, Frances Power Cobbe; Chapter 6 On the Education of Pauper Girls, Mary Carpenter; Chapter 7 Endowed Schools, Jessie Boucherett; Chapter 8 The Education and Employment of Women, Josephine Butler; Chapter 9 Letter to the Mayor of Liverpool; Chapter 10 Letter to Mr Bryce on Examinations for Governesses; Chapter 11 Special Systems of Education for Women, Emily Davies; Chapter 12 Home and the Higher Education; Chapter 13 Address to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Dorothea Beale; Chapter 14 Evidence to the Schools Inquiry Commission, Frances Buss; Chapter 15 From Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science; Chapter 16 From Principles of Education, Elizabeth Sewell; Chapter 17 The Education of Girls, its Present and its Future, Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy; Chapter 18 On the Special Requirements for Improving the Education of Girls, Maria Grey; Chapter 19 Are we to have Education for our Middle-Class Girls?, Maria Gurney; Chapter 20 The Work of the National Union, Emily A. E. Shirreff; Chapter 21 On the Education of Girls of the Middle Classes, Isabella M. S. Tod; Chapter 22 The Joint Education of Young Men and Women in American Schools and Colleges, Mary E. Beedy; Chapter 23 The Medical Education of Women, Sophia Jex-Blake; Chapter 24 An Interior View of Girton College, Cambridge*The following account of Girton College was written for an American Journal by an American lady who was herself for a time a Student of the College. It is reprinted, with the writer’s permission, for English readers, as giving a picture of the internal life of an institution still very imperfectly known in our own country. – E.D., E.T.M.; Chapter 25 The Physical Education of Women, V. Sturge; Chapter 26 Women’s Progress in Scholarship, Anne Jemima Clough; Chapter 27 Altissima Peto, Millicent Garrett Fawcett; Chapter 28 Home Management, Wilena Hitching; Chapter 29 Home Arts, Margaret A. Gilliland; Chapter 30 Home Science, L. M. Faithfull; Chapter 31 Higher Education and Marriage, B. L. Hutchins; Chapter 32 Letter to the Editor of the Times on Militant Suffragettes, Sir Almroth Wright;
Originally published: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987