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Educating Middle Class Daughters - Private Girls' Schools in Copenhagen 1790-1820 (Hardcover)
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Educating Middle Class Daughters - Private Girls' Schools in Copenhagen 1790-1820 (Hardcover)
Series: Danish Humanist Texts & Studies, v. 13
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When Denmark introduced compulsory education in 1814, the city of
Copenhagen responsed by regulating the already existing private
school system. Roughly half of the school age population went to
some kind of school and of those the overwelming majority attended
private schools, most of which were run by women. The book tells
the story of these women, their schools and pupils on the 150
private schools from 1790-1820. Carol Gold's contention is that
these private schools and their teachers were much better than is
presently assumed in Danish historiography. The teachers were all
literate; they could read and most of them could write. The
education provided for girls ranged from the basics of reading,
writing and arithmetic plus needlework in the beginner schools, to
the "scientific" subjects of history, geography, natural sciences
and foreign languages in the more advanced academies. Furthermore,
the schools formed the basis of the Copenhagen school system which
was established at the b
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