Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
British Women's Institute
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11 September 1915
The first British Women's Institute
was founded in Llanfair, Anglesey, Wales; the first Women's Institute of all had been founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, in 1897.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Jenkins, Inez. A History of the Women’s Institute Movement of England and Wales. Printed at the University Press by C. Batey, 1953.
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Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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Hughes, Mary, and Mary Kennedy, editors. New Futures: Changing Women’s Education. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
