Nineteenth-Century British Women's Education, 1840–1900
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-37639-6
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29th August 2007
- Pages: 2576
About the Book
This new six-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse brings together key documents from the Victorian feminist campaign to establish and improve girls’ and women’s education. The set is divided into two sections, both of which incorporate materials that argue for the improvement of girls’ and women’s education as well as arguments made against education for girls and women. The first section focuses on the debate surrounding the quality of women’s education and the question of access to higher education for women. This section also brings together documents from the feminist campaign with writing from the established press on the question of women’s higher education, and writings from the Social Sciences Association where many education reformers aired their views. The second section concentrates on the strengths and successes of Victorian women as educators, and highlights some of the most influential women in the field of education during this era.
Drawing widely on articles from the feminist and established press, government papers, newspapers, professional and association journals, as well as memoirs, addresses, pamphlets, and reviews, this essential collection gives researchers excellent and comprehensive access to nineteenth-century debates on improving girls’ and women’s education, and women’s work as educators.
Table of Contents
Volume I: Emily Davies and the Higher Education of Women
1. Emily Davies, ‘On Secondary Instruction, As Relating to Girls’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1864): 394–404
2. —— The Higher Education of Women (1866). 193pp.
3. —— ‘Some Account of a Proposed New College for Women’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1868): 400–3
4. —— ‘The Training of the Imagination’, Contemporary Review, September 1869: 25–37
5. —— Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women. 228pp.
Volume II: Girls’ and Women’s Education: Arguments and Experiences
6. Harriet Martineau, ‘On Female Education’, Monthly Repository (1823): 77–81
7. —— ‘What Women are Educated For’, Reasons for Female Education (London: 1861), pp. 97–106
8. Marion Reid (Mrs Hugo), ‘Education’, A Plea for Women (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), pp. 174–206
9. ‘Female Education in the Middle Classes’, English Woman’s Journal 1 (1858): 217–27
10. ‘Physical Training’, English Woman’s Journal 1 (1858): 145–57
11. W. B. Hodgson, ‘The General Education of Woman’, English Woman’s Journal 5 (1860): 73–84.
12. A. R. L., ‘Tuition or Trade?’, English Woman’s Journal 5 (1860): 173–83
13. J. G. Fitch, ‘The Education of Women’, Victoria Magazine 2 (1864): 432–53
14. Harry Chester, ‘The Education of Women in London’, Victoria Magazine 3 (1864): 481–5
15. J. P. Norris, ‘On the Proposed Examination of Girls of the Professional and Middle Classes’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1864): 404–12
16. James Davies, ‘Female Education’, Edinburgh Review, April 1866:499–515
17. Thomas Markby, ‘The Education of Women’, Contemporary Review, March 1866: 396–414
18. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, ‘The Medical and General Education of Women’, Fortnightly Review 10 (1868): 554–71
19. —— ‘The Education of Women in the Middle and Upper Classes’, Macmillan’s Magazine 17 (1868): 511–17
20. Whately Cooke Taylor, ‘On Indirect Sources of Advanced Female Education’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1868): 403–9
21. Thomas Markby, ‘On The Education of Women’, Contemporary Review, February 1868: 242–61
22. J. B. Mayor, ‘The Cry of the Women’, Contemporary Review, June 1869: 196–215
23. V., ‘The Powers of Women, and How to Use Them’, Contemporary Review, July 1870: 521–39
24. Richard Frederick Littledale, ‘The Religious Education of Women’, Contemporary Review, June 1872: 1–26
25. Elizabeth Eastlake, ‘The Englishwoman at School’, Quarterly Review, July 1878: 254–7
26. Lady Stanley of Alderley, ‘Personal Recollections of Women’s Education’, Nineteenth Century 6, August 1879: 308–21
27. B. G. Johns, ‘The Education of Women’, Edinburgh Review, July 1887: 89–114
28. Helen McKerlie, ‘The Lower Education of Women’, Contemporary Review 60 (1887): 112–19
Volume III: Education of Working Women and of Middle-Class Girls
Part 1: Working Women’s Education.
29. Fanny Hertz, ‘Mechanics’ Institutes for Working Women, With Special Reference to the Manufacturing Districts of Yorkshire’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1859): 347–54
30. ‘Working Women’s College’, Victoria Magazine 8 (1866): 97–106
31. ‘Education Amongst the Working Women of Huddersfield and Bradford’, Englishwoman’s Review 2 (1869): 181–8
32. Frances Martin, ‘A College for Working Women’, Macmillan’s Magazine 40 (1879): 483–8
Part 2: Education of Girls, Particularly Middle-Class Girls
33. ‘An Inquiry into the State of Girls’ Fashionable Schools’, Fraser’s Magazine 31 (1845): 703–12
34. ‘Colleges for Girls’, English Woman’s Journal 2 (1859): 361–74
35. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, ‘Middle-Class Schools for Girls: A Paper Read at the Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Glasgow, 1860’, English Woman’s Journal 6 (1860): 168–77
36. Jessie Boucherett, ‘On the Education of Girls with Reference to their Future Position: A Paper Read at the Meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Glasgow, 1860’, English Woman’s Journal 6 (1860): 217–24
37. ‘Training of Girls; or the Vexed Problem’, English Woman’s Journal 9 (1862): 104–9
38. Jessie Boucherett, ‘Endowed Schools, Their Uses and Shortcomings’, English Woman’s Journal 9 (1862): 20–8
39. ‘Science for Women’, English Woman’s Journal 9 (1862): 145–56
40. W. B. Hodgson, ‘The Education of Girls Considered in Connexion with the University Local Examinations’, Victoria Magazine 3 (1864): 250–71
41. Archibald Maclaren, ‘Girls’ Schools’, Macmillan’s Magazine 10 (1864): 409–16
42. Harriet Martineau, ‘Middle-Class Education in England: Girls’, Cornhill Magazine 10 (1864): 549–68
43. F. D. Maurice, ‘What Better Provision Ought to be Made for the Education of Girls of the Upper and Middle Classes?’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1865): 268–74
44. Anne Jemima Clough, ‘Hints on the Organisation of Girls’ Schools’, Macmillan’s Magazine 14 (1866): 435–9
45. Isabella M. S. Tod, ‘Advanced Education for Girls of the Upper and Middle Classes’, National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1867): 368–78
46. B. E. W., ‘Is Emulation a Lawful and Efficient Means of Promoting the Education of Women?’, Englishwoman’s Review 1 (1867): 275–9
47. ‘What Results Should be Sought in the Education of Girls, and How Are Such Results Most Likely to be Attained?’, Englishwoman’s Review 2 (1868): 354–9
48. M. Burrows, ‘Female Education’, Quarterly Review 126 (1869): 448–79
49. Daniel Robert Fearon, ‘Girls’ Grammar Schools’, Contemporary Review 11 (1869): 333–54
50. Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme, ‘The Education of Girls, Its Present and Its Future’, in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture (London: Macmillan, 1869), pp. 290–330
51. ‘Mixed Education’, Englishwoman’s Review 5 (1872): 153–62
52. Dudley Campbell, ‘Mixed Education of Boys and Girls’, Contemporary Review 22 (1873): 256–65
53. Elizabeth Sewell, ‘An Experiment in Middle-Class Education’, Macmillan’s Magazine 25 (1872): 243–9
54. Isabella Tod, On the Education of Girls of the Middle Classes (London: William Ridgway, 1874), pp. 3–17
55. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, ‘Holes in the Education Net’, Contemporary Review 51 (1887): 639–53
Volume IV: Higher Education for Women
Part 1: Women and Universities56. F. D. Maurice, ‘Plan of a Female College for the Help of the Rich and the Poor’, in F. D. Maurice (ed.), Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855), pp. 1–25
57. ‘The Influence of University Degrees on the Education of Women’, Victoria Magazine 1 (1863): 260–71
58. A Member of Convocation, ‘The University of London and the Graduation of Women’, English Woman’s Journal 11 (1863): 270–5
59. F. P. Cobbe, ‘The Education of Women and How it Would be Affected by University Examinations’, Essays on the Pursuits of Women (London: Emily