Author: Emily DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Women in the Universities of England and Scotland
Author: Emily DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Women in the Universities of England and Scotland
Author: Women in the Universities of England and Scotland
Author: Emily DaviesPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341368523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
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Studies in Higher Education in England and Scotland
Author: George Edwin MacleanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334763960
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Excerpt from Studies in Higher Education in England and Scotland: With Suggestions for Universities and Colleges in the United States The oneness of the New World with the Old is found in the par allel story of the planting of American colleges along the Atlantic seaboard and by the western pioneers on the prairies and beyond the Rockies. Indeed, the similarities between the British and Ameri can institutions grow upon one who studies them. Knowing the de scent of the American from the English college, one is prepared for the family likeness, and recognizes that the differences are largely superficial. Both are at work upon the same great problems. Each may learn from the other. The British commissions and delegations of teachers have not been slow in recent times to visit America and to profit by American educational experiments. The subject of this bulletin has an immediate practical as well as a theoretical interest, in view of the considerable and increasing num ber of American students in the United Kingdom, in addition to the nearly 100 Rhodes scholars from the United States in residence at Oxford. A better understanding of the higher education of the two countries will cement the bond of common anglo-saxon institutions, language, literature, and international obligations. The institutions in England and Scotland fall into eight groups, consisting of four types of universities and four kinds of colleges. They are, in the approximate order of their evolution: I. Oxford and Cambridge, with Durham as a modern variation. II. The Scotch universities, St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh. III. London. IV. The new or provincial universities at Manchester (victoria), Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, and Bristol. V. The independent university colleges at Exeter, Nottingham, Reading, and Southampton. VI. Technical colleges and schools. VII. Agricultural colleges and schools. VIII. Women's colleges. The older groups have been the direct or indirect progenitors of the younger. Over and above formal affiliations, all the groups are more closely interrelated than the public are aware Of, by the pres ence on their faculties of the graduates of the different institutions, by joint examining boards, and by common representatives on their governing boards. On the other hand each institution of the same type has the most distinct individuality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Pioneering British Women Chemists: Their Lives And Contributions
Author: Marelene Rayner-canhamPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 1786347709
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
'The book neatly illuminates a forgotten history of female chemists — and this is not an overstatement. It contains a multitude of names, events and socio-economic interactions in the pursuit of women's education and professional emancipation that are guaranteed to contain stories that readers will not have heard before … It is easily a dip-in and dip-out type of read, allowing simple navigation to specific areas of Britain, disciplines and professions … Besides highlighting the women who fought against an inherently male-dominated system and celebrating their supporters, this book also examines the events and the history surrounding their lives and endeavours. It pays particular note to the nations of the British Isles and gives equal contribution to those lost in history as to those names we are all so familiar with. A fantastic resource that has been excellently researched, I am sure it will remain an ageless tribute and reference work.'Education in ChemistryHistorically, British chemistry has been perceived as a solely male endeavour. However, this perception is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted British women for centuries past. In this new book, the authors trace the story of women's fascination with chemistry back to the amateur women chemists of the late 1500s. From the 1880s, pioneering academic girls' schools provided the knowledge base and enthusiasm to enable their graduates to enter chemistry degree programs at university. The ensuing stream of women chemistry graduates made interesting and significant contributions to their fields, yet they have been absent from the historical record.In addition to the broad picture, the authors focus upon the life and contributions of some of the individual women chemists who were determined to survive and flourish in their chosen field. From secondary school to university to industry, some of the women chemists expressed their sentiments and enthusiasm in chemistry verse. Examples of their poetic efforts are sprinkled throughout to give a unifying theme from grade school to university and industrial employment. This book provides a well-researched glimpse into the forgotten world of British women in chemistry up to the 1930s and 1940s.
Mary Lyon Centennial and the Higher Education of Women (Classic Reprint)
Author: Philip Stafford MoxomPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666396884
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Excerpt from Mary Lyon Centennial and the Higher Education of Women This day, February 28, 1897 1s the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke College for women. All over the land this anniversary is marked by tributes to her memory and by gifts to the institution with which her name is inseparably linked Why this honor to a Massachusetts spin ster who lived but fifty-two years, and gave but a dozen of those years to the school which she founded? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book
Author: Jessica DeSpainPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317087240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.
Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts
Author: Anna RobertsPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063701
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
Pens and Needles
Author: Susan FryePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication. Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700
Author: Deborah SimontonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134419066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This landmark publication collects the essays of the leading women's historians and provides the most coherent overview of women's role and place in Western Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.