Circa 1900 album containing 6 photogravure images of Shrewsbury High School for girls.

Verlag: United Kingdom

Beschreibung

Shrewsbury High School. 6 photogravure images of Shrewsbury High School for girls. Each image tipped onto kaki coloured card pages. Not sure of age but circa 1900. Apologies for the use of a watermark. Gold titling to front just about discernable. Wear, tears and small loss to edges of covers and pages. Splits to spine top & bottom. Binding holding. Images undamaged. Images included: Front view. The School from the Garden. Basket Ball. The Hall. The Kindergarten. The Studio. --- Shrewsbury High School opened as a day school for girls in 1885. In 1893 Ethel Gavin, (1866 ?1918), a British educationist took over as head. The school moved to its present location on the banks of the River Severn in central Shrewsbury in 1895. In 1897, Gavin moved on to another headship in 1897. In 1905 Gavin was able to obtain a masters degree from Trinity College, Dublin by becoming one of the Steamboat ladies. Oxford and Cambridge allowed women to take degree courses but refused to confer degrees on women irrespective of their achievement. Trinity College had decided to confer degrees on any student who had passed courses at Cambridge or Oxford. They were not expecting 5,000 women to travel to Dublin and to pay the fees so that they could have a degree. The offer was only open for three years and Gavin was lucky enough to take advantage during this time. Notable former pupils of Shrewsbury High School include Lois Baxter, actress, Mary Beard, classicist, Alice Bunn, Director of UK Space Agency & Hilda Murrell, naturalist. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000975

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Circa 1900 album containing 6 photogravure ...

Verlag: United Kingdom

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fair