Girls' Public Day School Trust, Limited

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Amy Levy
The school was one of these only recently set up by the Girls' Public Day School Company . It also took younger boys, and two of Amy's brothers attended with her. The headmistress, Edith Creak
politics Maria Grey
MG received a silver casket from Frances Mary Buss and Dorothea Beale , famous as headmistresses under the Girls' Public Day Schools Trust , in recognition of her contribution to education.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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politics Maria Grey
Also known as the Women's Education Union, this organization was inaugurated at the Royal Society of Arts, with Lord Lyttelton as the chair. MG was elected the first chair, but declined that position in...
politics Emily Shirreff
ES served as a member of the Girls' Public Day School Company ; she was appointed vice-president shortly before her death.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.

Timeline

2 August 1869
The Endowed Schools Act effected educational reform and improved funding for girls' schooling.
17 November 1871
The National Union for the Education of Girls of all Classes above the Elementary was founded by Maria Grey , with her sister Emily Shirreff and others.
June 1872
The Girls' Public Day School Company was founded in London by the National Union (Women's Education Union) to establish schools for girls.
June 1872
The Girls' Public Day School Company was founded in London by the National Union (Women's Education Union) to establish schools for girls.
January 1873
Emily Shirreff and George C. T. Bartley edited the first issue of the Journal of the Women's Education Union/National Union for Improving the Education of All Classes.
20 January 1873
Chelsea School , first of the Girls' Public Day School Company schools, opened.
1874
The Association of Headmistresses was founded by Frances Mary Buss and Dorothea Beale .
June 1882
The Journal of Women's Education Union ceased publication in London.
18 December 1902
Balfour 's Education Act was passed; it dissolved the School Boards and replaced them with Local Education Authorities , which were empowered to provide secondary education.