North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women

Connections

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Occupation Josephine Butler
In 1868 JB (as president of the organization from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University . The petition was granted in 1869, and...
politics Josephine Butler
In the year of her move to Liverpool, 1866, JB collaborated with Anne Jemima Clough to form the Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society , an organization intended to encourage and support the education of women...
politics Maria Grey
MG strongly endorsed the goal of women's suffrage and the campaign for wider career opportunities. Her friendship with Josephine Butler developed after Butler invited her to speak to the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women

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1866: Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded...

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1866

Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded the Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society to provide a serious course of lectures for women.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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1866: Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded...

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1866

Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded the Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society to provide a serious course of lectures for women.
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
285
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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1867: The Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society...

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1867

The Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society expanded to become the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women .
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
285

1868: Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for...

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1868

Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for Ladies throughout Northern England.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
285

1869: The Cambridge Higher Local Examinations for...

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1869

The Cambridge Higher Local Examinations for Women were instituted as a result of campaigning by Emily Davies and the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women .
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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Howarth, Janet, and Emily Davies. “Introduction”. The Higher Education of Women, Hambledon Press, 1988.
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1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...

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1871

Newnham College for women was founded in Cambridge.
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
114

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