Laffan used the royalties of her second novel, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, for her own further education and the education of her only surviving younger sister, Catherine
. She attended Alexandra College
in Dublin...
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1861
Queen's Institute, Dublin, was founded, mainly through the efforts of Anne Jellicoe
, for the technical instruction of women.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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11 October 1866: Alexandra College, Dublin, was founded by...
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2024, 10 vols.
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.