Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Travel
Emily Shirreff
By 1847, ES
was living in her mother
's home in Lowndes Square in London with her sister
and brother-in-law
.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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Friends, Associates
Emily Shirreff
The pair frequently helped each other in their writing: Buckle was already working on his History of Civilisation in England. Maria Grey
said that his influence on ES
was that of a strong and...
Her sister
identified the reason that she left this position: she was confronted with a persistent opposition to her influence and views concerning governance of the institution.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood.
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.
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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...
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.
Timeline
17 November 1871: The National Union for the Education of Girls...
