A history of women's education in England

Abstract

Part 1 Women's sphere is home: Victorian domestic ideology and women. Part 2 Education and working-class girls: dame schools Sunday schools weekday schools expansion of grants for domestic subjects scholarship system why did mass schooling arise? Part 3 Good wives and mothers - educational provision and working-class women: adult Sunday schools mechanics' institutes working men's and working women's colleges evening schools The Women's Co-operative Guild. Part 4 Education and middle-class girls: home education fashionable boarding schools small day schools and cheaper boarding schools why did the women's education reform movement arise? new academic schools for middle-class girls - high schools, girls' public boarding schools, feminist awakenings. Part 5 Ladylike homemakers - educational provision for middle class women: adult education - scientific and cultural societies, mechanics' institute and working men's college movements, women's institutes and townswomen's guilds, informal self education higher education - ladies colleges, university education. Part 6 Echoes into the late 20th century.

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