Maria Grey

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Standard Name: Grey, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Georgina Shirreff
Married Name: Maria Georgina Grey
MG wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her early productions were literary: she collaborated with her sister on a narrative and a novel, and then produced a second novel independently. Her later writings were political, arguing the need for improvements to women's education, as well as addressing issues relating to the suffrage movement. Through her writings and through direct action, MG worked to ensure an improvement in opportunities for women's education.

Connections

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Occupation Ann Bridge
Since, however, writing seemed unlikely to yield her a livelihood, she went immediately to work as assistant secretary for the Charity Organization Society , Chelsea branch. This paid her twenty-three shillings a week, with hours...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
The Athenæum regarded FPC 's book as a serious contribution to theological debate, though it considered the first essay the weakest. Her rejection of the thinking that fed into social Darwinism—she noted that Darwin had...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis.
83
as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis.
84
But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...
Author summary Catherine Maria Grey
CMG was a popular silver-fork novelist, most commonly known as Mrs. Grey to her readers. Her works are often misattributed to her daughter Anna Maria Grey , or to the unrelated Maria Georgina Grey (1816-1906)...
Author summary James Malcolm Rymer
James Malcolm Rymer was a prolific penny dreadfulist, novelist, and journal editor. Although he rarely published under his own name but instead employed a large number of pseudonyms, his works of fiction (which may have...
Travel Emily Shirreff
ES , suffering from ill health, travelled with her sister to Italy and Switzerland; they then went on to Germany, where they visited training institutes for teachers.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
23, 26, 190
death Emily Shirreff
ES died in her home at 41 Stanhope Gardens, Queen's Gate, London, where she and her sister Maria had lived since 1884.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
ES published Letters from Spain and Barbary, written in collaboration with her sister Maria (later Maria Grey ).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
ES and her sister published a novel entitled Passion and Principle, designed to enforce their own beliefs about these qualities.
The Feminist Companion, the Dictionary of National Biography (both the old and new...
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
Further to her work as honorary secretary of the organization which she and her sister had founded, ES co-edited the Journal of the Women's Education Union.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Author summary Emily Shirreff
ES lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These...
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Shirreff
ES had an elder sister, Caroline , and two younger sisters, Maria and Katherine . Maria and Emily remained close all their lives, and published several collaborative works.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
9, 19-20
Education Emily Shirreff
ES ' early education was primarily domestic. Her father employed Adele Piquet , a French-Swiss governess who spoke no English, to educate Emily and Maria . The girls' mother also read to them and taught them needlepoint.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
8, 10
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Shirreff
In 1841 ES 's sister Maria married William Grey . Given the sisters' close relationship, the marriage was difficult for Emily, and her health even deteriorated somewhat immediately following it. After a brief period, however...

Timeline

17 November 1871: The National Union for the Education of Girls...

National or international item

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.

20 January 1873: Chelsea School, first of the Girls' Public...

Building item

20 January 1873

Chelsea School , first of the Girls' Public Day School Company schools, opened.

1874: The Froebel Society was established to promote...

Building item

1874

The Froebel Society was established to promote the notion of the kindergarten education.

Texts

Grey, Maria. Is the Exercise of the Suffrage Unfeminine?. London National Society for Women’s Suffrage, 1870.
Grey, Maria. Last Words to Girls on Life in School and After School. Rivingtons, 1889.
Grey, Maria, and Emily Shirreff. Letters from Spain and Barbary. 1835.
Grey, Maria. Love’s Sacrifice. 1868.
Grey, Maria. Memorials of E. A. E. Shirreff. Privately printed, 1897.
Grey, Maria. “Men and Women”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
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, No. 26, pp. 672-85.
Grey, Maria. Old Maids. Ridgway, 1875.
Grey, Maria. On the Education of Women. W. Ridgway, 1871.
Grey, Maria. Paper on the Study of Education as a Science. W. Ridgway, 1874.
Grey, Maria, and Emily Shirreff. Passion and Principle. Routledge, 1853.
Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio. The Ruling Principle of Method Applied to Education. Translator Grey, Maria, D. C. Heath, 1887.
Grey, Maria, and Emily Shirreff. Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women. Edward Moxon, 1850.