The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England: A Record of Fifty Years' Progress

by Alice Zimmern

• Aberystwyth College, [6], [9], [10].
• Addison’s Essays, [10].
• Aldeburgh Girls’ School, [160].
• Allen, James, Girls’ School, [96], [191].
• Aske’s School, Hatcham, [101].
• Astell, Mary, [8], [9], [10].
• Bangor College, [141], [145].
• Beale, Miss, at Queen’s College, [30];
  • at Cheltenham, [30];
  • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, [33], [42], [85];
  • an educational pioneer, [38];
  • her abstract of the Royal Commission’s Report, [48];
  • her views on private teaching, [53];
  • founds St. Hilda’s, Oxford, [122].
• Bedford College, [27], [28], [29], [121], [128], [129], [130], [131].
• —— endowment, [81], [90], [92], [93], [95].
• —— High School, [93], [94], [95], [135].
• —— Modern School, [93], [94], [95].
• Birmingham endowments, [80], [90], [91].
• Blue-stocking Club, [11].
• Board of Education Bill, [240].
• Boarding-houses, [152], [153], [166].
• Boarding-schools, [149], [150], [161], [162].
• Bodichon, Madame, [39], [40], [84], [107].
• Bostock, Miss, [28], [84].
• Bryce, Mr., [47], [84].
• Buss, Miss, at Queen’s College, [30];
  • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, [33], [42], [85];
  • an educational pioneer, [38];
  • President of Schoolmistresses’ Association, [48];
  • transforms the North London Collegiate into a public school, [85];
  • procures endowment for it, [86], [87].
• Buss, Frances Mary, Schools, [87], [88].
• Cambridge Examinations, Junior and Senior, [33], [34], [40], [41], [51], [109], [167].
• —— —— Higher Local, [34], [51].
• —— position of women at, [113], [114], [126].
• —— Triposes opened to women, [110], [111], [112].
• Camden School, [87], [191].
• Cardiff College, [141], [145].
• Careers open to women, [162], [163], [246].
• Chapone, Mrs., [11].
• Charitable Trusts Acts, [83].
• Charity Commission, [83], [100], [102], [174].
• Cheltenham Ladies’ College, [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [53], [94], [135], [153].
• Christ’s Hospital Girls’ School, [80], [97].
• Church Schools’ Company, [58], [59].
• City of London Girls’ School, [102].
• Clergy Daughters’ Schools, [17], [18].
• Clough, Miss, [38], [49], [81], [109], [116], [247].
• Cobbe, Miss, her reminiscences of school, [15], [16].
• Co-education at University of Wales, [176];
  • at Polytechnics, [177];
  • in Organised Science Schools, [187];
  • in Higher Grade Schools, [206];
  • in Welsh Intermediate Schools, [224], [227].
• College Hall, London, [134].
• County Councils, educational work of, [172], [177], [237].
• Curriculum of Girls’ Schools, [67], [71], [72], [75], [162].
• Davies, Miss Emily, an educational pioneer, [38];
  • Secretary to Local Examination Committee, [40];
  • gives evidence before Schools’ Inquiry Commission, [42];
  • works to obtain endowments for girls, [84];
  • foundress of Girton, [104];
  • Mistress of Girton, [108].
• Day Schools, [149], [150].
• —— —— at Polytechnics, [184], [185], [186], [187], [188].
• Defoe on Women’s Education, [9], [10].
• Degrees for Women, attempts to obtain, at Cambridge, [110], [113];
  • at Oxford, [120].
• Domestic Economy Schools, [178], [179], [180], [181].
• —— —— evening classes, [181], [182].
• Dual Schools. See Wales.
• Edgeworth, Maria, [13], [14], [15].
• Education Bill of 1896, [239];
  • Colonel Lockwood’s, [240].
• —— Company, [157].
• —— Department, [196].
• Elementary Education Act, [100], [225].
• Elizabeth. See Queen Elizabeth.
• Elizabethan England, [7], [8].
• Endowed Schools before the Conquest, [78].
• Endowed Schools for girls, [85], [91], [97], [100];
  • three grades of, [99].
• —— —— assisted by grants of Technical Education money, [191].
• Endowments, of Convents, [5];
  • Association to promote their application to the Education of Women, [84];
  • their distribution, [98];
  • share of girls in, [79], [80], [84], [91], [97], [102].
• Euphues, [7].
• Evening Continuation Schools, [211].
• —— —— —— Code, [212], [213], [214].
• Ex-standard classes, [199].
• Fitch, Mr., [44], [46], [84].
• Games for girls, [152], [153], [155], [156], [164].
• Girls’ Public Day School Company, [56], [57], [66].
• Girton College, [106], [107], [108], [110], [114], [115].
• Governesses’ Benevolent Institution, [21].
• Grammar Schools, [6], [8], [80].
• Grey, Mrs. William, [54], [56].
• High Schools, [59];
  • difference between English and American, [60];
  • general features of, [61];
  • organisation, [62];
  • buildings, [63];
  • curriculum, [72];
  • methods of teaching in, [73];
  • results on the pupils, [73], [76], [77];
  • training of the teachers, [73];
  • after careers of the girls, [77];
  • hours of work in, [152];
  • their relation to elementary schools, [241].
• Higher Grade Schools, [199], [200], [201], [203];
  • at Leeds, [204], [205];
  • at Cardiff, [206];
  • needs of girls at, [207], [208].
• Hilda, abbess of Whitby, [3].
• Hitchin Ladies’ College, [105], [106].
• Holloway College, [102], [121], [131], [132], [133].
• Intermediate Schools. See Welsh Intermediate Schools.
• King Edward’s Schools. See Birmingham endowments.
• King’s College, Ladies’ Department, [135].
• Lady Margaret Hall, [117], [120], [121], [123].
• Lecture-system, [25], [72], [73].
• Local Customs and Taxation Act, [169], [217], [235].
• Lockwood, Colonel. See Education Bill.
• Makins, Mrs., [9].
• Manchester High School, [89].
• Manual training, [74], [158], [171].
• Mary Datchelor School, [101].
• Maurice, F. D., [22], [23].
• Modern Schools for girls, [189].
• Montagu, Mrs., [11].
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [11].
• More, Hannah, [11], [12], [13], [163].
• National Union for the improvement of Women’s Education, [54], [55], [56].
• Newnham College, [108], [109], [110], [114], [115], [116].
• Norman Conquest, effect on Education, [3].
• North London Collegiate School, [33], [53], [64], [68], [87], [135].
• North of England Council, [48], [49], [50], [108].
• Nunneries, education given in, [3], [5].
• Organised Science Schools, [187], [201], [202], [204].
• Owens College, Manchester, [136].
• Oxford Association for the Education of Women, [116], [117], [118], [119], [120], [123].
• Oxford Halls for Women, [116], [117].
• Oxford Home Students, [123], [124].
• —— Local Examinations, [40], [50].
• —— Position of Women at, [118], [119], [120], [124], [126].
• —— University Examinations, [132].
• —— and Cambridge Joint Board, [51], [68], [69];
  • Higher Certificate of, [69], [70], [116];
  • Lower Certificate, [70], [71].
• People’s Palace, [174].
• Pfeiffer Charity, [102].
• Physical training, [75], [76], [158], [159], [160].
• Polytechnics, [176], [183], [184], [194].
• —— Battersea, [178], [182];
  • Borough, [178];
  • Regent Street, [173], [175], [177], [178].
• Private Schools, [163], [164], [166], [167], [168], [242].
• Queen Anne, [10].
• —— Elizabeth, [6].
• —— Victoria, [18], [19], [21].
• Queen’s College, [20], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [245].
• Reading School, [79].
• Reformation, its effect on Women, [5], [6].
• Reid, Mrs., [27], [28].
• Renaissance, [6].
• Revised Code, [197].
• Revival of Girls’ Education, [1], [19], [248].
• Roedean School, [197].
• Scholarships at Cambridge, [116];
  • at Oxford, [123].
• —— of Technical Education Boards, [178], [191], [192], [193].
• —— in Welsh Schools, [223].
• School Boards, [197], [198].
• Schoolmistresses’ Associations, [48], [49].
• Schools’ Inquiry Commission, [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [52], [82].
• Secondary Education Commission, [101], [198], [209], [226], [234], [235], [237], [239].
• Sidgwick, Henry, [108], [109].
• —— Mrs., [109], [116].
• Sinclair, Catherine, [16], [17].
• Skinners’ School at Stamford Hill, [96], [101].
• Social Science Congress, at Glasgow, [40], [84];
  • at Leeds, [54].
• Somerville College, [117], [120], [121], [123].
• South Kensington Department of Science and Art, [200], [201], [202], [203], [208], [209], [210], [213], [214].
• St. Hilda’s, Cheltenham, [36].
• —— Oxford, [117], [122], [123].
• St. Hugh’s Hall, [117], [122], [123].
• St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews, [94], [153], [154], [155], [156].
• St. Paul’s School, [79].
• State the, its relation to Education, [195], [196].
• Stuart Court, its influence, [8].
• Technical Education Acts, [170], [171], [235].
• —— —— Boards, [190], [237];
  • Cheshire, [190];
  • London, [129], [175], [176], [178], [192], [193];
  • Surrey, [188].
• Universities, rise of, [4];
  • admission of Women to, [103], [148];
  • at London, [127];
  • Victoria, [136];
  • Durham, [139];
  • Wales, [139];
  • Scotland 147;
  • Ireland, [147];
  • foreign countries, [147].
• University College, Liverpool, [136], [137].
• University College, London, [26], [134].
• —— Colleges, provincial, [135].
• —— —— of Wales, [140], [141], [143], [144].
• —— Extension, beginnings of, [49], [50].
• —— for Women, [106], [133].
• —— of London, examinations for Women, [35];
  • degrees, [35], [126], [127], [128], [129], [132];
  • reorganisation, [135].
• Victoria. See Queen Victoria.
• —— University, [136].
• Wales, University of, [139], [140], [141], [142], [143].
• Welsh Intermediate Education Act, [170], [217], [235].
• —— —— Schools, two kinds of, [223];
  • dual, [225], [226], [227];
  • curriculum of, [220], [221];
  • compared with High Schools, [221], [222];
  • fees, [228];
  • present condition of, [232], [233];
  • County Governing Bodies 218, [238];
  • Joint Education Committees, [219];
  • Central Board, [220], [228], [229];
  • its examinations, [230] 231.
• Welsh, Miss, [116].
• Westfield College, [102], [130], [131].
• Whisky-money, [170], [217].
• Winchester College, [78], [79].
• Women teachers, [244].
• Wotton, [6].
• Wycombe Abbey School, [157], [158].
• Yorkshire Board of Education, Ladies’ Honorary Council of, [48], [88].
• —— College, Leeds, [136], [138].

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[3]. Sir Th. Overbury.

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