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.
Low-resolution black-and-white photo of Maria Grey sitting in a chair,holding a book. She has a white cap tied round her head and she is wearing glasses. Her dress is buttoned up the front and topped by a short jacket.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Emily Shirreff
In 1871 ES worked with her sister Maria Grey to establish the National Union for the Education of Women of all Classes ; ES worked as honorary secretary and also co-edited (with George Bartley )...
politics Emily Shirreff
Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck (who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey , and ES , the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by...
Residence Emily Shirreff
After four years of living abroad, ES and her sister Maria returned to England because of a cholera outbreak in Gibraltar.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
11
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
By 4 May 1850, ES and her sister Maria collaborated on the tract Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1175 (1850): 474
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...
Friends, Associates Herbert Spencer
His broad social circle included several other women writers. Frances Power Cobbe , Eliza Lynn Linton , Matilda Betham-Edwards , and sisters Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff , were all his acquaintances. Later in life...

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