Intellectual Education, and Its Influence on the Character and Happiness of Women.

Shirreff, Emily.

Verlag: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

Beschreibung

Emily Shirreff (1814 - 1897) was a suffragist, opponent of slavery, and pioneering educator. In 1871, she and her sister Maria Grey (1816 Ð 1906, founded the WomenÕs Education Union. She also served for one year as the second principal of Emily DaviesÕ WomenÕs College, which is now Girton College at Cambridge. Shirreff was also an early proponent of Froebelian education in England. She helped establish Frobel Society, lecturing and writing extensively on the kindergarten system, and served as its president from 1876 to her death. SherriffÕs other works included Letters from Spain and Barbary (1835/36) and a novel, Passion and Principle (1841), both written with her sister. The two also collaborated on Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women (1850), in which they argued that defective education and inactive lives were the main reasons for womenÕs lack of power and that marriage is not essential to womenÕs ÒhappinessÉand self-respectÓ (Thoughts on Self-Culture, p. 14). Octavo. xii, 276 pp PublisherÕs purple cloth stamped decoratively in blind, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers Spine somewhat toned. Binding a little loose. Contemporary pencil signature to front free endpaper. A bit of light foxing. A very good, clean copy. Second edition. With a new preface by Shirreff in which she defends her strategy for the education of girls from the criticism that the recommended lessons (in Greek, Latin, arithmetic, history, and more) were too challenging for the average girl (pp. iii-v). The work also includes guides on time management and a chapter on ÒSome Peculiarities of WomanÕs Social PositionÓ including the need to compete with men and the challenges of securing employment and further education (pp. 255-276). Note that the work otherwise contains Òno alterationsÓ to the rest of the text (p. iii). The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, p. 978. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17069

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Titel: Intellectual Education, and Its Influence on...

Verlag: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862.

Einband: Hardcover