The Education PapersFirst 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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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | 34 |
Frances Power Cobbe | 37 |
Mary Carpenter | 50 |
Their Uses and Shortcomings 1862 Jessie Boucherett | 58 |
Josephine Butler | 69 |
Emily Davies | 99 |
Isabella M S Tod | 230 |
Mary E Beedy | 248 |
Sophia JexBlake | 268 |
E T M | 277 |
V Sturge | 284 |
Anne Jemima Clough | 295 |
An Address to High School Pupils nd Millicent Garret Fawcett | 305 |
Wilena Hitching | 311 |
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The Education Papers: Women's Quest for Equality in Britain, 1850-1912 Dale Spender Limited preview - 2001 |
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