ES
, Maria, and Caroline
were subsequently sent to a boarding-school in Paris, where they remained for less than a year because of Emily's failing health.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Emily Shirreff
ES
had an elder sister, Caroline
, and two younger sisters, Maria
and Katherine
. Maria and Emily remained close all their lives, and published several collaborative works.
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, 1990.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.