The Shirreff sisters, Emily (1814-97) and Maria Georgina (later
Grey; 1816-1906) were pioneers in the field of education for girls
in the wider context of women's rights. They jointly wrote the
influential two-volume Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women
(1850), and Emily (whose books are also reissued in this series)
was briefly the principal of the college at Hitchin which became
Girton College, Cambridge. The sisters founded the Girls' Public
Day School Company in 1872; by 1905 it had opened 37 girls' schools
across Britain. Grey also set up the first training college for
women in London in 1878: it was renamed in her honour in 1892. In
this 1889 work, she looks back, offering to the young 'the results
of her life's thought and experience', and endeavouring to help
late-Victorian school-leavers answer the questions 'Where are we
going? What is the use and object of all this school work?'
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