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The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England: A Record of Fifty Years' Progress

Chapter 15: INDEX
By Alice Zimmern
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A concise historical account of the revival and expansion of education for girls in England during the nineteenth century, combining institutional history, policy review, and social context. It surveys medieval antecedents and the decline and recovery of female scholarship, profiles the founding of secondary schools and women’s colleges, examines endowments, technical and state-supported initiatives, and the struggle for university admission, and outlines regional developments. Drawing on reports, school visits, and contemporary records, it traces how campaigns, legislation, and changing educational practice widened opportunities and created pathways from elementary instruction to higher learning for female students.

INDEX

  • Aberystwyth College, 6, 9, 10.
  • Addison’s Essays, 10.
  • Aldeburgh Girls’ School, 160.
  • Allen, James, Girls’ School, 96, 191.
  • Aske’s School, Hatcham, 101.
  • Astell, Mary, 8, 9, 10.
  • Bangor College, 141, 145.
  • Beale, Miss, at Queen’s College, 30;
    • at Cheltenham, 30;
    • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, 33, 42, 85;
    • an educational pioneer, 38;
    • her abstract of the Royal Commission’s Report, 48;
    • her views on private teaching, 53;
    • founds St. Hilda’s, Oxford, 122.
  • Bedford College, 27, 28, 29, 121, 128, 129, 130, 131.
  • —— endowment, 81, 90, 92, 93, 95.
  • —— High School, 93, 94, 95, 135.
  • —— Modern School, 93, 94, 95.
  • Birmingham endowments, 80, 90, 91.
  • Blue-stocking Club, 11.
  • Board of Education Bill, 240.
  • Boarding-houses, 152, 153, 166.
  • Boarding-schools, 149, 150, 161, 162.
  • Bodichon, Madame, 39, 40, 84, 107.
  • Bostock, Miss, 28, 84.
  • Bryce, Mr., 47, 84.
  • Buss, Miss, at Queen’s College, 30;
    • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, 33, 42, 85;
    • an educational pioneer, 38;
    • President of Schoolmistresses’ Association, 48;
    • transforms the North London Collegiate into a public school, 85;
    • procures endowment for it, 86, 87.
  • Buss, Frances Mary, Schools, 87, 88.
  • Cambridge Examinations, Junior and Senior, 33, 34, 40, 41, 51, 109, 167.
  • —— —— Higher Local, 34, 51.
  • —— position of women at, 113, 114, 126.
  • —— Triposes opened to women, 110, 111, 112.
  • Camden School, 87, 191.
  • Cardiff College, 141, 145.
  • Careers open to women, 162, 163, 246.
  • Chapone, Mrs., 11.
  • Charitable Trusts Acts, 83.
  • Charity Commission, 83, 100, 102, 174.
  • Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 53, 94, 135, 153.
  • Christ’s Hospital Girls’ School, 80, 97.
  • Church Schools’ Company, 58, 59.
  • City of London Girls’ School, 102.
  • Clergy Daughters’ Schools, 17, 18.
  • Clough, Miss, 38, 49, 81, 109, 116, 247.
  • Cobbe, Miss, her reminiscences of school, 15, 16.
  • Co-education at University of Wales, 176;
    • at Polytechnics, 177;
    • in Organised Science Schools, 187;
    • in Higher Grade Schools, 206;
    • in Welsh Intermediate Schools, 224, 227.
  • College Hall, London, 134.
  • County Councils, educational work of, 172, 177, 237.
  • Curriculum of Girls’ Schools, 67, 71, 72, 75, 162.
  • Davies, Miss Emily, an educational pioneer, 38;
    • Secretary to Local Examination Committee, 40;
    • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, 42;
    • works to obtain endowments for girls, 84;
    • foundress of Girton, 104;
    • Mistress of Girton, 108.
  • Day Schools, 149, 150.
  • —— —— at Polytechnics, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188.
  • Defoe on Women’s Education, 9, 10.
  • Degrees for Women, attempts to obtain, at Cambridge, 110, 113;
    • at Oxford, 120.
  • Domestic Economy Schools, 178, 179, 180, 181.
  • —— —— evening classes, 181, 182.
  • Dual Schools. See Wales.
  • Edgeworth, Maria, 13, 14, 15.
  • Education Bill of 1896, 239;
    • Colonel Lockwood’s, 240.
  • —— Company, 157.
  • —— Department, 196.
  • Elementary Education Act, 100, 225.
  • Elizabeth. See Queen Elizabeth.
  • Elizabethan England, 7, 8.
  • Endowed Schools before the Conquest, 78.
  • Endowed Schools for girls, 85, 91, 97, 100;
    • three grades of, 99.
  • —— —— assisted by grants of Technical Education money, 191.
  • Endowments, of Convents, 5;
    • Association to promote their application to the Education of Women, 84;
    • their distribution, 98;
    • share of girls in, 79, 80, 84, 91, 97, 102.
  • Euphues, 7.
  • Evening Continuation Schools, 211.
  • —— —— —— Code, 212, 213, 214.
  • Ex-standard classes, 199.
  • Fitch, Mr., 44, 46, 84.
  • Games for girls, 152, 153, 155, 156, 164.
  • Girls’ Public Day School Company, 56, 57, 66.
  • Girton College, 106, 107, 108, 110, 114, 115.
  • Governesses’ Benevolent Institution, 21.
  • Grammar Schools, 6, 8, 80.
  • Grey, Mrs. William, 54, 56.
  • High Schools, 59;
    • difference between English and American, 60;
    • general features of, 61;
    • organisation, 62;
    • buildings, 63;
    • curriculum, 72;
    • methods of teaching in, 73;
    • results on the pupils, 73, 76, 77;
    • training of the teachers, 73;
    • after careers of the girls, 77;
    • hours of work in, 152;
    • their relation to elementary schools, 241.
  • Higher Grade Schools, 199, 200, 201, 203;
  • Hilda, abbess of Whitby, 3.
  • Hitchin Ladies’ College, 105, 106.
  • Holloway College, 102, 121, 131, 132, 133.
  • Intermediate Schools. See Welsh Intermediate Schools.
  • King Edward’s Schools. See Birmingham endowments.
  • King’s College, Ladies’ Department, 135.
  • Lady Margaret Hall, 117, 120, 121, 123.
  • Lecture-system, 25, 72, 73.
  • Local Customs and Taxation Act, 169, 217, 235.
  • Lockwood, Colonel. See Education Bill.
  • Makins, Mrs., 9.
  • Manchester High School, 89.
  • Manual training, 74, 158, 171.
  • Mary Datchelor School, 101.
  • Maurice, F. D., 22, 23.
  • Modern Schools for girls, 189.
  • Montagu, Mrs., 11.
  • Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 11.
  • More, Hannah, 11, 12, 13, 163.
  • National Union for the improvement of Women’s Education, 54, 55, 56.
  • Newnham College, 108, 109, 110, 114, 115, 116.
  • Norman Conquest, effect on Education, 3.
  • North London Collegiate School, 33, 53, 64, 68, 87, 135.
  • North of England Council, 48, 49, 50, 108.
  • Nunneries, education given in, 3, 5.
  • Organised Science Schools, 187, 201, 202, 204.
  • Owens College, Manchester, 136.
  • Oxford Association for the Education of Women, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123.
  • Oxford Halls for Women, 116, 117.
  • Oxford Home Students, 123, 124.
  • —— Local Examinations, 40, 50.
  • —— Position of Women at, 118, 119, 120, 124, 126.
  • —— University Examinations, 132.
  • —— and Cambridge Joint Board, 51, 68, 69;
    • Higher Certificate of, 69, 70, 116;
    • Lower Certificate, 70, 71.
  • People’s Palace, 174.
  • Pfeiffer Charity, 102.
  • Physical training, 75, 76, 158, 159, 160.
  • Polytechnics, 176, 183, 184, 194.
  • —— Battersea, 178, 182;
  • Private Schools, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 242.
  • Queen Anne, 10.
  • —— Elizabeth, 6.
  • —— Victoria, 18, 19, 21.
  • Queen’s College, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 245.
  • Reading School, 79.
  • Reformation, its effect on Women, 5, 6.
  • Reid, Mrs., 27, 28.
  • Renaissance, 6.
  • Revised Code, 197.
  • Revival of Girls’ Education, 1, 19, 248.
  • Roedean School, 197.
  • Scholarships at Cambridge, 116;
    • at Oxford, 123.
  • —— of Technical Education Boards, 178, 191, 192, 193.
  • —— in Welsh Schools, 223.
  • School Boards, 197, 198.
  • Schoolmistresses’ Associations, 48, 49.
  • Schools’ Inquiry Commission, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 52, 82.
  • Secondary Education Commission, 101, 198, 209, 226, 234, 235, 237, 239.
  • Sidgwick, Henry, 108, 109.
  • —— Mrs., 109, 116.
  • Sinclair, Catherine, 16, 17.
  • Skinners’ School at Stamford Hill, 96, 101.
  • Social Science Congress, at Glasgow, 40, 84;
    • at Leeds, 54.
  • Somerville College, 117, 120, 121, 123.
  • South Kensington Department of Science and Art, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208, 209, 210, 213, 214.
  • St. Hilda’s, Cheltenham, 36.
  • —— Oxford, 117, 122, 123.
  • St. Hugh’s Hall, 117, 122, 123.
  • St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews, 94, 153, 154, 155, 156.
  • St. Paul’s School, 79.
  • State the, its relation to Education, 195, 196.
  • Stuart Court, its influence, 8.
  • Technical Education Acts, 170, 171, 235.
  • —— —— Boards, 190, 237;
  • Universities, rise of, 4;
    • admission of Women to, 103, 148;
    • at London, 127;
    • Victoria, 136;
    • Durham, 139;
    • Wales, 139;
    • Scotland 147;
    • Ireland, 147;
    • foreign countries, 147.
  • University College, Liverpool, 136, 137.
  • University College, London, 26, 134.
  • —— Colleges, provincial, 135.
  • —— —— of Wales, 140, 141, 143, 144.
  • —— Extension, beginnings of, 49, 50.
  • —— for Women, 106, 133.
  • —— of London, examinations for Women, 35;
  • Victoria. See Queen Victoria.
  • —— University, 136.
  • Wales, University of, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143.
  • Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 170, 217, 235.
  • —— —— Schools, two kinds of, 223;
    • dual, 225, 226, 227;
    • curriculum of, 220, 221;
    • compared with High Schools, 221, 222;
    • fees, 228;
    • present condition of, 232, 233;
    • County Governing Bodies 218, 238;
    • Joint Education Committees, 219;
    • Central Board, 220, 228, 229;
    • its examinations, 230 231.
  • Welsh, Miss, 116.
  • Westfield College, 102, 130, 131.
  • Whisky-money, 170, 217.
  • Winchester College, 78, 79.
  • Women teachers, 244.
  • Wotton, 6.
  • Wycombe Abbey School, 157, 158.
  • Yorkshire Board of Education, Ladies’ Honorary Council of, 48, 88.
  • —— College, Leeds, 136, 138.