Emily Shirreff

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Standard Name: Shirreff, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Anne Eliza 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 and her other writings were frequently produced as collaborations with her sister Maria Grey . As well as more than ten works about education, ES and her sister also composed a collection of travel letters and a novel. Finally, ES also worked for periodical publications, both as an editor and as a contributor.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
death Maria Grey
Her sister Emily had preceded her, dying on 20 March 1897. Dorothea Beale summed up the sisters' life's work when she declared that they had worked in faith and gradually the mountain of prejudice yielded...
Textual Production Maria Grey
All of MG 's initial publications were collaborations with her sister Emily Shirreff . Their first work was a collection published in 1835, entitled Letters from Spain and Barbary (that is, North Africa).
Textual Production Maria Grey
In 1841 MG and her sister Emily Shirreff published a novel, Passion and Principle.
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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ also used the Athenæum to voice her views on female education. She praises Emily Shirreff 's Intellectual Education for its wise counsel on the education of women,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1597 (1858): 714
as well as its...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Rigby
The essay begins with a quotation from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and goes on to review several publications on the subject, including the Journal of the Women's Education Union (co-edited by Emily Shirreff ). ER
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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