Pam Hirsch: 3 books
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Feminist, Artist and Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian women's movement. Enormously talented, energetic and original, she was a feminist, law-reformer, painter, journalist, the close friend of George Eliot and a cousin of Florence Nightingale. As a painter,...
Practical Visionaries
Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the...
Teacher Training at Cambridge
The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge...