A survey of the education of British women to the nineteenth century : or, Britannia goes to school.

This survey attempts to form a connected picture of the history of some eighteen centuries of the Education of Englishwomen. The phenomenal success of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in achieving the right of all girls to elementary education at least has been frequently recorded of late, for the sources are full and abundant. They are considerably less so in the case of the first eighteen hundred years. As far as the writer is aware there has been no official history of women’s education written of the ages preceding 1800. Such information as has been used here was drawn from the literature of those years. Since the writer has not been able to read all the works which might have been useful, this thesis is capable of expansion, and perhaps re-interpretation, at a later date