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Loading... Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867by Christina De Bellaigue
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An increasing number of middle class families were taking the education of their daughters seriously in the first part of the nineteenth century, and boarding-schools were multiplying on both sides of the Channel. Schoolmistresses - rarely, in fact, the 'reduced gentlewomen' of nineteenth century fiction - were not only often successful entrepreneurs, but also played an important part they played in the development of the teaching profession, and in the expansion of secondaryeducation. Uncovering their careers and the experiences of their pupils reveals the possibilities and constraints of the No library descriptions found. |
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