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Cover of The Education Papers

The Education Papers Women’s Quest for Equality in Britain, 1850–1912

  • Published: 25 Oct 2001
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203708958
  • Print ISBN: 9780415256865
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203708958

First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All of the women in this collection achieved significant reforms or struggled to change popular prejudices about women's education.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Dale Spender
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    Mental Differences Between Men and Women (1887) By George J. Romanes
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    Founding of Queen’s College (1850) By George J. Romanes
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    An American School (1858) By Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
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    The Education of Women, and how it Would be Affected by University Examinations (1862) By Frances Power Cobbe
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    On the Education of Pauper Girls By Mary Carpenter
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    Endowed Schools: Their Uses and Shortcomings (1862) By Jessie Boucherett
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    The Education and Employment of Women (1868) By Josephine Butler
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    Letter to the Mayor of Liverpool (1867) By Josephine Butler
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    Letter to Mr Bryce on Examinations for Governesses (1868) By Josephine Butler
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    Special Systems of Education for Women (1868) By Emily Davies
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    Home and the Higher Education (1878) By Emily Davies
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    Address to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1865) By Dorothea Beale
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    Evidence to the Schools Inquiry Commission (1865) By Frances Buss
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    from Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: The Education of Girls (1865) By Frances Buss
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    from Principles of Education (1865) By Elizabeth Sewell
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    The Education of Girls, its Present and its Future (1869) By Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy
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    On the Special Requirements for Improving the Education of Girls (1871) By Maria Grey
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    Are we to have Education for our Middle-Class Girls? (1872) By Maria Gurney
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    The Work of the National Union (1873) By Emily A. E. Shirreff
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    On the Education of Girls of the Middle Classes (1874) By Isabella M. S. Tod
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    The Joint Education of Young Men and Women in American Schools and Colleges (1873) By Mary E. Beedy
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    The Medical Education of Women (1873) By Sophia Jex-Blake
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    An Interior View of Girton College, Cambridge (1876) By Eliza Theodora Minturn
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    The Physical Education of Women (n.d.) By V. Sturge
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    Women’s Progress in Scholarship (1890) By Anne Jemima Clough
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    Altissima Peto: An Address to High School Pupils (n.d.) By Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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    Home Management (1910) By Wilena Hitching
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    Home Arts (1911) By Margaret A. Gilliland
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    Home Science (1911) By L. M. Faithfull
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    Higher Education and Marriage (1912) By B. L. Hutchins
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    Letter to the Editor of The Times on Militant Suffragettes (1912) By Sir Almroth Wright
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    Back Matter