Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975.
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Education | Florence Farr | During her time at school she boarded with a cousin. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 10 |
Education | Stella Gibbons | After her governess attempted suicide, SG
enrolled in North London Collegiate
, the school founded by Frances Mary Buss
, a pioneer in women's education. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 26-7 |
Education | Phyllis Bentley | As a young child PB
went as a weekly boarder to Halifax Ladies' College, a private school in her home town run by Miss Monica
and Miss Kate Pannett
. (Such a school would take... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College
. Queen's College was founded for the training of... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Taylor | HT
moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Louisa Garrett Anderson
, Emily Davies
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, Frances Mary Buss
, Dorothea Beale
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987. 186 Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. xxvii |
Friends, Associates | Emily Hickey | Other members of the Browning Society
(besides the joint founder with EH
, Frederick James Furnivall
) included Eleanor Marx
and Frances Buss
. Benzie, William. Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Victorian Scholar Adventurer. Pilgrim Books, 1983. 231 |
Health | Emily Shirreff | From Italy she wrote to Frances Mary Buss
that we have had of course much passing enjoyment in the beautiful scenery we have dwelt amongst, but there is a dark shadow over all. It is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 83 Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 84 |
Occupation | Emily Hickey | EH
became a lecturer in English Literature at North London Collegiate School for Girls
(a secondary school), founded in April 1850 by Frances Mary Buss
, who was still headmistress. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 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. |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
and Frances Mary Buss
gave evidence before the Schools Inquiry Commission
, ensuring that girls' education would figure in its influential report. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927. 135-6 |
politics | Emily Shirreff | Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck
(who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey
, and ES
, the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by... |
politics | Maria Grey | MG
received a silver casket from Frances Mary Buss
and Dorothea Beale
, famous as headmistresses under the Girls' Public Day Schools Trust
, in recognition of her contribution to education. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 139 |
politics | Helen Blackburn | She was a committee member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
, an organization (founded in 1859) that sought to train women and encourage the provision of job opportunities for them. Other... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | D. Laing
(in the same letter which reports on AOK
's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund
with both warm sympathy and condescension. This letter-writer may have been the Rev... |
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