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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Maria Grey | Her sister Emily
had preceded her, dying on 20 March 1897. Dorothea Beale
summed up the sisters' life's work when she declared that they had worked in faith and gradually the mountain of prejudice yielded... |
Education | Maria Grey | Maria and her sister Emily
were largely educated by their French-Swiss governess, Adele Piquet
, who spoke no English. Their mother
taught them needlepoint while their father instructed them in astronomy and other sciences. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 8, 10 |
Education | Maria Grey | Both Maria and Emily
were also independent learners, taking it upon themselves to study languages and the humanities. Encouraged by her cousin and future husband William Grey
, Maria also applied herself to philosophy. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 10-12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Grey | Her elder sister Emily
was her lifelong friend, and her political and literary collaborator. |
Friends, Associates | Henry Thomas Buckle | In 1853 he met the writer Emily Shirreff
while travelling in Italy. They developed a close friendship. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
Friends, Associates | Herbert Spencer | His broad social circle included several other women writers. Frances Power Cobbe
, Eliza Lynn Linton
, Matilda Betham-Edwards
, and sisters Maria Grey
and Emily Shirreff
, were all his acquaintances. Later in life... |
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 |
politics | Maria Grey | MG
founded the Froebel Society
in February 1875 with Emily Shirreff
and Beata Doreck
. In the 1880s she was instrumental in bringing the educational philosophy of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
to public attention. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 231, 274-5 |
politics | Emily Davies | Under the direction of Charlotte Manning
, five students began studying at the College at Benslow House, Hitchin, in October 1869. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927. 210, 219-20 |
politics | Maria Grey | With the assistance of her sister Emily Shirreff
, MG
founded the National Union for the Improvement of the Education of Women of All Classes
. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 174 |
Author summary | Maria Grey | MG
wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her early productions were literary: she collaborated with her sister
on a narrative and a novel, and then produced a second novel independently. Her later... |
Publishing | Maria Grey | MG
wrote a memoir of her sister
entitled Memorials of E. A. E. Shirreff, with a Sketch of Her Life, which was privately printed. OCLC WorldCat. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. |
Residence | Maria Grey | |
Residence | Maria Grey | After four years in Gibraltar, Maria and her sister Emily Shirreff
returned to England to avoid a cholera outbreak. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 11 |