Hope deferred : girls' education in English history / Josephine Kamm
by Kamm, Josephine
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- first
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About This Item
London : Methuen, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 324 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm. Notes;Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320). Contents; Anglo-Saxon learning -- Medieval England: the decay of learning -- The Renaissance revival -- Study no object for rich or poor -- Seventeenth-century boarding schools and projects -- Charity schools of the eighteenth century -- The bluestocking contribution -- The forces of reaction -- Theorists and reformers of the eighteenth century -- The ladies' academy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- The birth of elementary education -- The middle-class problem -- The campaign begins -- The Schools' Inquiry Commission -- The growth of secondary education -- The movement towards a national system of education -- The training of young children -- Higher education for women -- The training of teachers -- What of the future? Subjects; Women Education Great Britain. Education Great Britain History.
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- Title
- Hope deferred : girls' education in English history / Josephine Kamm
- Author
- Kamm, Josephine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- London : Methuen
- Date Published
- 1965
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