Emily Shirreff

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Standard Name: Shirreff, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff
ES lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These and her other writings were frequently produced as collaborations with her sister Maria Grey . As well as more than ten works about education, ES and her sister also composed a collection of travel letters and a novel. Finally, ES also worked for periodical publications, both as an editor and as a contributor.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Maria Grey
All of MG 's initial publications were collaborations with her sister Emily Shirreff . Their first work was a collection published in 1835, entitled Letters from Spain and Barbary (that is, North Africa).
Textual Production Maria Grey
In 1841 MG and her sister Emily Shirreff published a novel, Passion and Principle.
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.
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.
210, 219-20
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon donated some sketches to decorate the walls...
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
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.
83
as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis.
84
But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...
Friends, Associates Henry Thomas Buckle
In 1853 he met the writer Emily Shirreff while travelling in Italy. They developed a close friendship.

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