Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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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. 139 |
politics | Maria Grey | Also known as the Women's Education Union, this organization was inaugurated at the |
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. |