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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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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