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1897rif. 179301897. Binghamton Central High School yearbook. 1897. The Panorama Annual Binghamton New York. 8.5" x 5.5" inches. Green boards with gilt gold text on front cover. Yearbook includes class lists various organizations and clubs student and faculty photos humorous illustrations and historic advertisements. One student satire titled "The High School Piano" reads "Although it was with much sorrow that we learned last fall of the abduction of the Rostrum Carpet we console ourselves with the fact that the piano still remains with us. This priceless antiquity being one of the few remaining relics of our school should be kept under a glass case; but we must confess that it is shamefully abused before our very eyes." One illustration shows a young man with two thought bubbles above him showing him dancing with a woman and a separate woman posing. Underneath the caption "This is why he didn't pass his exams." The book is a charming overview of the boisterous student body. Scuffing and staining to covers. Overall good condition. unknown books
1898rif. 173641898. Women's Education Emma Willard and her Pupils Mrs. Russell Sage New York 1898. First Edition Signed by a teacher from the Willard school on front fly: "Presented to Dorothy Limm for being neither absent nor tardy during the year 1916-7 Eliza Kellas Emma Willard School." A detailed account of the life and work of a pioneer among women's education and the founder of the Troy Female Seminary. Includes a record of Pupils; Emma Willard was an American educator whose work in women's education particularly as founder of the Troy Female Seminary spurred the establishment of high schools for girls and of women's colleges and coeducational universities.Hardcover Blue nubbly cloth gilt spine title gilt cover coat of arms beveled edges blind covers borders top edge gilt tissued frontis & a handful of portraits in the text. 854 57 pages. Hardcover 8" x 10" inches. A good copy with top right corner of front cover well rubbed interiors clean and bright. unknown books
1911rif. 174621911. Women's Education. The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls. Manchester: University Press 1911. First edition. Red cloth boards. A number of plates inside depicting key figures and the facilities of the school. The school was founded in 1874 by nine men and women who were prominent citizens of Manchester. The author Sara Burstall had been the Headmistress of the high school since 1898 as well as a Special Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Manchester High School for Girls is today one of Britain's leading girls' schools. Some minor staining to covers but interior is clean and bright. Ex libris. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1809rif. 175631809. More Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 1809 argues that elite women required serious moral religious and intellectual education in order to shape family life philanthropy and national conduct. First published in 1799 More's influential educational work criticized ornamental female instruction and urged women of rank and fortune to become rational companions moral mothers and agents of social reform. The book belongs to a conservative reform tradition that expanded women's public usefulness through education charity and religious duty rather than through political equality. More Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune. Salem Mass.: Samuel West 1809. Later edition. Two volumes. Vol. 1: xi 146 pages. Vol. 2: 130 pages. The text argues that superficial education left women poorly prepared for conversation domestic responsibility moral example and charitable work while recommending Biblical reading serious literature rational discussion compassion and generosity as central elements of female formation. More's educational program influenced nineteenth-century debates over women's activity beyond the household particularly philanthropy religious reform and instruction of the poor. Light browning throughout loose front free endpaper with 1828 ownership inscription; very good. A two-volume American edition of More's major work on women's education preserving a formative conservative model of female intellectual and social agency. unknown books
1884rif. 172321884. Women's Education Darton J.M. Famous Girls Who Have Become Illustrious Women of our Time Forming Models of Imitation by the Young Women of England. London later edition. Circa 1884. Duodecimo 5.5" x 7.25"inches. 329 pages. As issued no dust jacket. Hardcover with beautifully illustrated crimson boards. Illustrated frontispiece in addition to ____ other black and white illustrated plates of the "illustrious women". Signed and inscribed by an aunt to her niece and subsequently shows the youthful ownership signature of a young girl named Joan Solomon. This work highlights the lives of "famous girls" of "no single period nor of any one station" who achieved through their deeds "the admiration and the emulation of angels." This piece gave young girls role models by raising the general consciousness of remarkable women as well as distinguishing them from their family names which historically would be associated with the actions of the male members. The passage of this piece from aunt to niece shows an abiding interest in women's history at the time. The women profiled include Margaret Roper Harriet Beecher Stowe and Queen Victoria. There is minimal bumping and sunning to spine. Some toning and foxing on the free endpaper. Complete with three pages of advertisements to rear. Interiors are clean and bright. Textblock tight. A very good copy. unknown books
1819rif. 168471819. Women's Education BUTLER William. Arithmetical Questions On A New Plan: Intended To Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction And Miscellaneous Information Designed For the Use of Young Ladies. London: 1819. Measures 5.25" x 9" inches. 485 pages. Original leather boards. Spine decorated with gilt. Seventh edition. Includes chapters on "Arithmetic" "Numeration" "Addition" "Subtraction" "Multiplication" "Division" "Reduction" "Interest" "The Rule of Three Direct" "The Double Rule of Three" and more. Each chapter includes quotes from famous philosophers verses of poetry the history of the subject and its utility and small histories to enliven the mathematical exercises. A short example: "It has been much disputed who was the inventor of the compass; but the honour is usually ascribed to Flavio De Giovia a native of Amalfi an ancient commercial city in the kingdom of Naples. Supposing the event to have taken place 16252164000 moments ago how many years has it been discovered this year 1818 and what was the year of its discovery reckoning 365 days 6 hours in the year" Most mathematical questions are prefaced by elaborate lively histories that will form the structure of the question. It would take another 21 years after this book was published for the first institute of higher education for women in the United Kingdom to open with Bedford College in 1849. However education advocates in the United Kingdom were already arguing for greater access often on the basis that girls ought to have an education to become sensible homemakers and the nurturer's of the nation's citizenry. As the preface reads "Let us direct our attention principally to female education which judicious observers have represented as so eminently conductive to the welfare of the state. Now in order to estimate the high obligations that women of cultivated minds may confer to the community let us first reflect with Rousseau that "the education of most consequence is that which is received in infancy; and this first education belongs incontestably to the WOMEN." Includes a list of Butler's other publications in the genre of girl's education and recommendations from critics. Overall in good condition. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Leather boards scuffed and shelfworn; Front and back hinge cracking. Infrequent faint offsetting of text to opposite page. Pages clean and remarkably bright textblock tight. unknown books
1895rif. 171041895. The Mary Lyon Year Book. Boston and Chicago: Congressional Sunday School and Publishing Society 1895. Small octavo in light brown cloth boards with gilt embossing. Frontispiece portrait of Lyon. 365 pages. Signed "Gray" on front free endpaper. Each page containing a quote from the bible a great philosopher work of literature or the like and a quote from Mary Lyon. Instead of page numbers there is a quotation page for every day of the year. Deckle pages top edge gilt. In very good condition with clean and bright pages and a tight textblock. A few small pencil marks in the first pages otherwise very clean. A beautiful copy of a quotation book recording the most important ideas to this great American pioneer in women's education. unknown books
1814rif. 171341814. Girl's Education Original cross-stitch alphabet sampler from two 8-year old girls. 1814. In frame: 15.5" x 20.5". Alphabet cross-stitched in capital and lower case letters. Vowels numbers 0-9 and floral designs in backstitch. Girls' names Verna L Haywood and Elizabeth Hope stitched below along with "at best 1814" "Age eight years" and "Give thanks to the Lord". This piece has interestingly been worked by both girls. The fabric upon which they stitched have been sewn together in a vertical line down the center. The stitches on either side are distinct; the capital letters on the right half for instance are generally stitched in a more straight line while the letters on the left side have greater variation in height.Samplers were valuable parts of girls' education from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries as it demonstrated both their skill in needlepoint and their achievements in literacy. From the 1800s the very first schools and academies for young women in America had their students create needlepoint pieces with decorative motifs such as verses or the entire alphabet being stitched on the sampler. The parents of these young women proudly displayed their embroideries as showpieces of their daughter's talent and status. In recent years these samplers have become important in museum collections as representations of early American female education. Some light staining and fading to fabric. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1910rif. 171721910. Davies Emily. "Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women 1860-1908." Collected writings of Sarah Emily Davies a pioneering English feminist. With Prefatory Note by E.E. Constance Jones. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes 1910. Photo-illustrated frontispiece portrait of the author opposite full title page. Volumes held at National Library of Scotland and University of Oxford. Original cloth boards. 8 x 5.5 in. 228 pages. Collection of the writings of Sarah Emily Davies a pioneering English feminist suffragist and campaigner for women's rights to university education who is best remembered as a co-founder of Girton College Cambridge University the first university college in England to educate women. Topics on Davies's writings include: Female Physicians Employment of Women Medicine as a Profession for Women University Degrees and the Education of Women Women in the Universities of England ad Scotland and The Women's Suffrage Movement. Davies believed that education was key to improving women's place in society. One of her life's ambitions was that women should have access to university education on exactly the same terms as men. This led to the foundation of Girton College Cambridge in 1869. Here as an early Headmistress Davies provided women students with the same curriculum as that followed by male students to ensure that women's achievements would be recognized as equal. Water stain marks to half-title and few neighboring pages to front and back end pages; occasional water mark in interior pages. Former library copy with bookplate label and stamp from former institution The Working Men's College UK. Light sunning to spine. In good condition. At the time that this description is being written just two copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. unknown books
1867rif. 156051867. Dall Caroline Wells Healey. The College the Market and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education Labor and Law 1867 brings together Dall's arguments for expanding women's access to higher education paid employment and legal rights three areas that structured women's economic and civic position in nineteenth-century America. Published after her earlier Woman's Right to Labor 1860 and Woman's Rights Under the Law 1861 the volume belongs to a sustained series of writings in which Dall examined the institutional restrictions imposed upon women rather than treating their position solely as a matter of domestic custom. Dall was one of three founders of the American Social Science Association in 1865 and her correspondence from 1867 records discussion of The College the Market and the Court alongside women's rights women in medicine the American Equal Rights Association and the developing field of social science. Dall Caroline Wells Healey. The College the Market and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education Labor and Law. Boston: Lee and Shepard 1867. Early ownership signature of James Gould dated 1867 to front free endpaper. Dall organizes her examination around the "college" "market" and "court" addressing women's education their ability to enter and receive compensation for work and their standing under law. Her argument challenged the confinement of women's opportunities to the domestic sphere by identifying specific educational economic and legal restrictions on their participation in public life. The book appeared during a particularly active period in Dall's reform work: surviving correspondence from 1867 connects its publication with discussions involving Susan B. Anthony Anna Dickinson Lucretia Mott Olympia Brown Maria Mitchell and other participants in contemporary campaigns concerning women's rights education medicine and employment. Dall's combination of education labor and law places women's economic independence alongside intellectual and legal equality rather than treating these questions separately. Her work developed from Boston's antebellum and postwar reform culture: she had known Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody participated in antislavery and women's-rights activity and helped establish the American Social Science Association as an organization devoted to systematic investigation of social questions. The contemporary James Gould ownership signature dated the year of publication provides evidence of the book's early circulation. A substantive Reconstruction-era statement of Dall's program for changing women's position in education employment and American law. unknown books
1907rif. 164981907. Great Britain Board of Education. School Training for the Home Duties of Women. Part III. The Domestic Training of Girls in Germany and Austria 1907. British government report examining women's domestic education in Germany and Austria during the early twentieth-century expansion of vocational and secondary schooling for girls. Written by M. Cecile Matheson the study documents the curricula and organization of housewifery schools while addressing growing demands to extend women's education beyond household management into social legal and economic subjects. Particularly concerned with the education of middle- and upper-class women the report records contemporary efforts to broaden domestic training into a more comprehensive course of intellectual and practical instruction. Great Britain Board of Education. Special Reports on Educational Subjects. School Training for the Home Duties of Women. Part III. The Domestic Training of Girls in Germany and Austria. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office 1907. Volume 19 of the Board's Special Reports on Educational Subjects series issued in original printed paper wrappers. The report examines domestic training in German and Austrian schools with an appendix containing statistical tables detailing the institutions studied. Its discussion of educational reform identifies a demand for instruction extending beyond practical housewifery: ".there has been a demand for linking the training in the practical arts of the home to a study of the the many social legal and economic problem which affect home life and indeed any kind of institutional life in their relation to the general life of the people." Published as British educational authorities investigated foreign approaches to domestic science and vocational instruction the report records debates over the responsibilities and educational opportunities of women in pre-First World War Europe. Its examination of German and Austrian institutions provides comparative evidence of the relationship between women's schooling social class household economics and emerging expectations for female education. Some wear to spine. Ex-library copy. Very good condition. unknown books
1903rif. 155931903. Webster Jean. When Patty Went to College 1903 uses the daily life of a women's college to portray female higher education friendship academic expectations independence and the transition from college to adult life at the beginning of the twentieth century. Webster drew upon a setting she knew directly: she entered Vassar College in 1897 graduated in 1901 wrote for the Vassar Miscellany and the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier while a student and published When Patty Went to College as her first novel two years after graduation. The daughter of Mark Twain's publisher Charles L. Webster and Twain's niece Annie Moffett Webster she was Twain's great-niece. Webster Jean. When Patty Went to College. New York: The Century Co. 1903. First edition. The novel follows senior Patty Wyatt through college examinations friendships pranks chapel faculty encounters and questions about responsibility after graduation. Patty resists unquestioning conformity and approaches academic requirements on her own terms while episodes such as her intervention on behalf of the homesick freshman Olivia Copeland place friendship and mutual assistance alongside the comic treatment of college regulations. In the concluding encounter with a bishop after Patty skips chapel her discussion turns toward the habits she will carry beyond college. The Century Co. copyright dates the work to 1903 and records publication in March of that year. Early ownership signature to inside front cover. Published during a period of expanding opportunities for women in American higher education Webster's first novel places women students at the center of campus life rather than treating college merely as preparation for marriage. Her own Vassar education included English and economics settlement-house work and study of social reform; these concerns developed further in her later writing and public support for suffrage and institutional reform. The supplied description does not provide pagination binding illustrations size dust-jacket status or sufficient condition information beyond the ownership signature; these details should be added from examination of the copy rather than inferred. unknown books
1900rif. 163901900. Women's Education Student Life Wellesley College student decorated fan circa 1900 documents the social networks visual culture and institutional affiliations of women in higher education at the turn of the twentieth century. The object preserves a dense assemblage of personal and collegiate imagery combining photographic portraits of peers with printed insignia from universities and clubs establishing direct evidence of how female students constructed identity and community within elite academic environments. Produced during a period of expanding access to higher education for women the fan records both interpersonal relationships and broader institutional connections linking Wellesley students to a wider network of colleges and social organizations across the United States. Decorated folding fan circa 1900 composed of fabric leaf and wooden guards measuring approximately 10.5 x 19 inches when fully extended. One side features approximately 66 small black-and-white photographic cutouts depicting fellow students and acquaintances from Wellesley College. The reverse incorporates approximately 84 printed and decorative elements including color lithographed and gilt paper logos badges and emblems representing colleges and social clubs with identifiable institutions including Wellesley College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stanford University and Clark University. The arrangement forms a curated collage integrating personal photography with institutional symbolism. Created within the context of early twentieth-century women's collegiate life the fan reflects the emergence of women's colleges as sites of intellectual formation and social organization where visual memorabilia played a role in documenting friendships affiliations and aspirations. The combination of portraiture and institutional insignia demonstrates how students navigated both intimate and formal networks situating individual experience within a broader academic landscape. Such objects contribute to research in women's education material culture and the history of student life offering insight into how identity and community were materially constructed and preserved. Light soiling to fabric edges with minor wear to wooden elements; images and printed components remain intact and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1875rif. 163391875. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol 1875 records Carpenter's methods for the education and rehabilitation of girls committed to the Bristol reformatory she established as part of her wider campaign for juvenile penal reform. Carpenter argued that reform depended upon securing each girl's active participation rather than relying on punishment alone: "The will of each individual girl must be enlisted in her own reformation and she should be led to feel that without this the efforts of teachers will be useless. Such confidence must be awakened in the minds of the children toward their teachers." The volume documents an approach that combined discipline with education personal responsibility and sustained relationships between teachers and pupils principles central to Carpenter's work with poor and juvenile offending children. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol. 1875. First edition. Signed "with Miss Carpenter's Complements." Original brown boards with gilt title. Illustrated with an engraving of the school. This slim history describes Carpenter's work at Red Lodge and the institution's mission placing the school within her broader efforts to replace exclusively punitive treatment of young offenders with education and reform. Carpenter also established ragged schools for poor children advocated prison reform and expanded educational opportunities for women and carried her interest in educational and penal reform to Britain India Europe and the United States. Carpenter's writing on Red Lodge provides direct evidence of the educational principles applied to girls within the nineteenth-century reformatory movement particularly her insistence that institutional discipline required the cooperation and confidence of the child herself. The free front endpaper and engraving of the school are separated. A tear to the spine exposes the pages beneath; textblock clean. Overall Good Condition. unknown books
1893rif. 155941893. Brackett Anna C. Woman and the Higher Education 1893 brings together nineteenth-century arguments for expanding women's education at a time when women's access to colleges and professional life remained a subject of sustained public debate. Edited by educator and philosopher Anna Callender Brackett 1836-1911 the volume traces changes in American arguments for women's intellectual training from Emma Willard's 1819 appeal for female education through essays by women teaching and administering colleges by the 1880s and 1890s. Brackett presents this progression explicitly in her preface contrasting Willard's appeal to male legislators in 1819 with Maria Mitchell's later demand for the "enlightenment of our present rulers." The collection documents the development of arguments for women's intellectual independence collegiate education and participation beyond the domestic sphere. Brackett Anna C. ed. Woman and the Higher Education. New York: Harper & Brothers 1893. First edition. The volume collects seven essays spanning 1819 to 1892: Emma Willard's "A Plan for Improving Female Education"; Emma C. Embury's "Female Education"; Maria Mitchell's "The Collegiate Education of Girls"; Lucia Gilbert Runkle's "A New Knock at an Old Door"; Alice Freeman Palmer's "A Review of the Higher Education of Women"; Lucy Maynard Salmon's "The Teaching of History in Academies and Colleges"; and Brackett's "The Private School for Girls." Willard argues for women as an "essential part of the body politic" while the later contributions document a changed educational landscape in which women served as college professors and presidents. Brackett herself had previously addressed the intellectual consequences of restricting women to domestic life and defended education as necessary to women's moral and intellectual development independence and participation in public life. Published near the end of a century in which American women moved from campaigns for female seminaries toward established collegiate education Woman and the Higher Education preserves arguments made across more than seventy years by women directly involved in that transformation. Brackett was also a translator of Karl Rosenkranz's educational philosophy and a contributor to The Education of American Girls and her editorial work here places her own writing beside that of Mitchell Palmer Salmon Willard Embury and Runkle. The sequence permits direct comparison between early appeals for women's schooling and later discussions of collegiate instruction academic disciplines and the education of girls. Good condition. unknown books
1897rif. 167061897. Boole Mary. " Mathematical Psychology". First Edition. Hardcover 116 pages Swan Sonnenschein & Co. LTD. New York. G.P Putnam's Sons 1897. Wife of famous mathematician George Boole. She had progressive ideas on educationand feminists. Boole mathematical work crossed disciplines showing that mathematical data could help humans to better predict and understand cognitive processes. Mathematical psychology is an approach to psychological research that is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual thought cognitive and motor processes and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate quantifiable stimulus characteristics with quantifiable behavior in practice often constituted by task performance. The mathematical approach is used with the goal of deriving hypotheses that are more exact and thus yield stricter empirical validations. There are five major research areas in mathematical psychology: learning and memory perception and psychophysics choice and decision-making language and thinking and measurement and scaling. wiki . Very Good Condition. Mary Everest Boole 1832 - 1916. was a self-taught mathematician and wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on education as expounded in The Preparation of the Child for Science included encouraging children to explore mathematics through playful activities such as curve stitching. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them. wiki. unknown books
1848rif. 164591848. Howard Virtue. Report on Female Teaching 1848 an early address concerning women's qualifications employment opportunities and professional standing as teachers in nineteenth-century America. Delivered before the Oxford Teachers' Association in Maine on May 17 1848 the report examines the qualifications and usefulness of female teachers the privileges associated with their employment and the intellectual and financial benefits of teaching for women. Published during the expansion of female employment in American public education Howard's address records contemporary arguments supporting women's participation in a profession increasingly open to them. Howard Virtue. Report on Female Teaching. Paris Maine: G. Washington Millett 1848. 15 pages. Delivered before the Oxford Teachers' Association May 17 1848. The report discusses the qualifications and usefulness of women as educators alongside the professional opportunities and personal benefits associated with teaching. Howard addresses teaching as an occupation offering women opportunities for intellectual development and financial independence while considering the advantages of employing female instructors. The address was presented before a regional teachers' association placing these questions within organized discussions of educational practice and professional qualifications in antebellum Maine. During the first half of the nineteenth century the expansion of common schools and the development of teacher-training institutions increased women's participation in American education. Although women had long worked as instructors teaching became an increasingly accessible form of paid employment particularly in New England where educational reformers promoted female teachers while school districts frequently paid them less than their male counterparts. Howard's 1848 address belongs to this period of professional change when women's suitability for classroom instruction and their opportunities for independent employment were subjects of public discussion. Published the same year as the Seneca Falls Convention the report provides a contemporary account of arguments concerning women's intellectual abilities professional qualifications and economic opportunities in education. In very good condition. unknown books
1910rif. 150271910. Association pour l'Enseignement Secondaire des Jeunes Filles. Geography prize medal 1910 documenting formal recognition of young women's academic achievement in France during the expansion of secondary education for girls in the early twentieth century. Awarded in connection with the Association pour l'Enseignement Secondaire des Jeunes Filles at the Sorbonne the medal identifies geography as the field of achievement and belongs to the institutional culture through which women students received increasingly formal academic instruction and distinction. Bronze medal measuring 1.75 inches in diameter. The obverse depicts a seated classical female figure beside a pedestal decorated with laurel wreaths extending a wreath in her right hand as a symbol of academic reward. The reverse is engraved in part: "Association Pour L'Ensegnement Secondaire des Jeunes Filles a la Sorbonne.Geographie.1910." The inscription directly associates the award with secondary education for young women the Sorbonne and achievement in geography. The medal dates from a period when French girls' secondary education was expanding but remained institutionally distinct from that provided to boys. Its academic imagery and engraved subject record the formal recognition of a young woman's achievement in geography in 1910. The earlier identification of the figure as Terpsichore cannot be confirmed from the supplied evidence; Terpsichore is traditionally the Muse of dance rather than education. No condition defects have been supplied. unknown books
1897rif. 164571897. Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools. Memorandum and Articles of Association 1897 the constitutional document formalizing an organization created by women secondary teachers to represent their professional and employment interests in Britain. Founded in 1884 the Association of Assistant Mistresses developed as a national body advocating for women employed below the headmistress level in secondary schools and was incorporated in 1897 the year of the present publication. Contemporary descriptions later emphasized that it was founded and organized by women teachers themselves and participated in official bodies concerned with secondary education. The document therefore records the institutional system through which female teachers organized collectively defined their governing structure and developed an independent professional voice providing primary-source evidence for the study of women's employment teaching as a profession labor organization and gender within British secondary education. Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools. Memorandum and Articles of Association. London: Printed by Charles North The Blackheath Press S.E. 1897. Pagination dimensions and binding beyond the surviving format are not supplied. As a memorandum and articles of association issued in the year the organization was incorporated the publication established the formal framework under which the Association operated. The organization had been formed specifically to promote the interests of women teachers in secondary schools and later participated alongside the associations of headmistresses headmasters and assistant masters in collective representation of the secondary teaching profession. The pamphlet consequently demonstrates the mechanism by which women teachers moved beyond individual employment relationships toward organized professional representation establishing an institutional structure capable of addressing working conditions educational policy and the collective interests of its membership. The Association's incorporation in 1897 belongs to a broader late nineteenth-century expansion of women's professional organization as increased access to secondary education created growing numbers of salaried teaching positions for women. Its subsequent longevity underscores the importance of the structure codified here: the Association continued through the twentieth century ultimately reaching tens of thousands of members before merging with the Assistant Masters' Association in 1978. Ex-library copy with institutional stamp and pencil notation on the first page; otherwise no specific defects supplied; overall very good. A substantive organizational document showing women secondary teachers establishing the legal and administrative machinery through which they could collectively represent their professional interests at the close of the nineteenth century. unknown books
1761rif. 161641761. Ascham Roger The English Works of Roger Ascham Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth 1761 preserves the writings of the Tudor humanist whose instruction of Princess Elizabeth in Greek and Latin became part of the history of women's education learned monarchy and Renaissance pedagogy. Ascham served as Elizabeth's tutor from 1548 to 1550 later continued as Latin secretary under Mary I and Elizabeth I and became known for educational writing that valued disciplined classical learning lucid English prose and humane methods of instruction. His association with Elizabeth gives this collected edition particular significance for research into elite female education humanist curricula Tudor intellectual culture and eighteenth-century efforts to recover earlier models of learning for modern readers. Ascham Roger. The English Works of Roger Ascham Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth. London: Printed for T. Davies in Russell-Street Covent-Garden and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1761. Edited with notes observations and the author's life by James Bennet master of the boarding-school of Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. One volume. Pagination not supplied. No illustrations noted. Half morocco with gilt detail on covers and gilt lettering on spine. Size not supplied. Contents include "A Report of the Affairs of Germany and the Emperor Charles's Court" Toxophilus or the School of Shooting The Schoolmaster or Perfect Way of Bringing Up Youth illustrated by the late learned Mr. Upton and letters to Queen Elizabeth and others first published from manuscripts. HathiTrust records a closely related later issue of The English Works of Roger Ascham with notes observations and the author's life by James Bennet and gives the physical extent of that issue as xvi 395 pages confirming the collected structure of the work while not replacing the supplied 1761 copy details. Bennet's dedication frames Ascham's historical value through his relation to female sovereignty stating that "Ascham was not only the chief ornament of a celebrated college but visited foreign countries frequented courts and lived in familiarity with statesmen and princes; not only instructed scholars in literature but formed Elizabeth to empire." That sentence makes the volume more than a collected literary edition: it presents Elizabeth's education as a political achievement and connects women's learning to governance court culture and national memory. Some wear to ends of spine with bright interiors otherwise; overall good. A handsome eighteenth-century collected edition linking Tudor humanist education to the intellectual formation of Elizabeth I and the longer history of arguments for learned women. unknown books
1827rif. 165591827. Chapone Hester; Gregory John; Pennington Sarah. Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennington's Advice to her Absent Daughters; with an additional Letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children circa 1827 brings together major eighteenth-century texts on women's education moral formation reading domestic responsibility and female conscience. The volume belongs to the conduct-book tradition but is especially significant for pairing prescriptive instruction with arguments for women's rational cultivation including Chapone's emphasis on history literature and disciplined judgment and Pennington's insistence on moral conscience in the face of marriage family separation and social expectation. Chapone Hester; Gregory John; Pennington Sarah. Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennington's Advice to her Absent Daughters; with an additional Letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children. London: Scott Webster & Geary c. 1827. Early edition. 262 pages. Illustrated with two engravings including a frontispiece with tissue guard and an illustrated title page. Bound in marbled leather boards 32mo approximately 3.25 x 5.5 inches. The texts address religion economy government politeness the heart and affections reading habits maternal duty and the education of children with Chapone's letters originally written for her fifteen-year-old niece and warning against sentimental novels while encouraging serious intellectual formation. Issued in a compact illustrated format this omnibus shows the continued nineteenth-century circulation of women's educational writing that had already passed through numerous editions in Britain and America. Light wear to boards and extremities contents clean with illustrations present very good. A useful collecting item for the study of women's education conduct literature female authorship and the contested boundaries between obedience intellectual independence and moral agency in early nineteenth-century Britain. unknown books
1911rif. 156061911. Burstall Sara A. The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls 1911 records the founding and development of Manchester High School for Girls established in 1874 by nine Manchester men and women seeking expanded educational opportunities for girls. First opened in Chorlton on Medlock under headmistress Elizabeth Day the school developed during a period of substantial change in British secondary and higher education for women. Its founders included Professor A. S. Wilkins Harriet Darbishire Robert Dukinfield Darbishire and Edward Donner later Sir Edward Donner among prominent Manchester citizens associated with the undertaking. Burstall wrote from direct institutional experience: she succeeded Day as headmistress in 1898 and also served as Special Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Burstall Sara A. The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1911. First edition. The history follows the school from its establishment in 1874 through its subsequent development including the move to a purpose-built school in Dover Street in 1881. Burstall records the people responsible for establishing and administering the institution and the development of a girls' school within Manchester's expanding educational environment. Her position as headmistress gives the volume a direct institutional perspective on the governance and educational development of a school founded specifically for girls. The school's history belongs to the nineteenth-century expansion of organized secondary education for British girls and to Manchester's development as a center of educational reform. Its progression from the original Chorlton on Medlock premises to the Dover Street building records the physical expansion of an institution established when girls' secondary schooling was undergoing substantial change in Britain. The Dover Street building later became part of the University of Manchester estate occupied by its School of Social Sciences. Red cloth boards with minor staining. Overall good condition. Burstall's account preserves the school's early history through the perspective of the headmistress who led it from 1898. unknown books
rif. 88664N.p. n.d. ca 1880s-1900. Cloth-bound leporello binding gilt-ruled gilt-titled "FOLDING." on front cover 8-3/4" "x 8". Opens to reveal 42 panels 21 on each side of the accordion fold of which 26 are used containing a total of approximately two hundred folded examples laid-down but otherwise fully openable by unfolding; each unique some arranged into complex compositions on the page. Occasional mild foxing but Near Fine overall with three or four pieces possibly lacking from the final pages. The album is presumably American based on its source a regional American auction house purchased 2025 though conceivably British in origin. A beautifully-preserved "papierfalten" album of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century likely the work of either an advanced elementary-school student or a kindergarten teacher in training. Paper-folding was first introduced in American schools in the 1890s an adaptation of Friedrich Fröbel's kindergarten curriculum developed to train children in both manual skills and geometrical and mathematical concepts. The apotheosis of Fröbel's papierfalten technique was the so-called "Froebel Star" a complex three-dimensional composition based on the traditional German folk-art "Moravian Star." Numerous examples of the technique are collected here along with many more basic folds and several wonderful full-page compositions comprised of multiple folded sheets arranged to resemble snowflakes and other objects. We've encountered other examples of the papierfalten genre usually in single sheets with a few examples; none nearly as comprehensive or complex as this one and certainly none as beautifully preserved. A unique and beautiful documentation both of American folk art and educational technique. unknown books
1835rif. 87853Springfield: G. and C. Merriam 1835. Stated Second Edition. Octavo 19cm; purple pebbled cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; xi214-21223-4pp; illustrated frontispiece with light off-setting to title page. Pencilled notes to front endpaper. Sunning to spine and board margins with modest shelf-wear tiny tears to spine ends rubbing to cloth of corners and foxing to endpapers and pastedowns; Very Good. First Edition published in 1834 and this text focuses on early childhood education reform with sections on food exercise religious instruction educational toys punishment and music. Dwight 1796-1866 was the son of the New England author and legislator Theodore Dwight 1764-1846 and the nephew of Timothy Dwight the theologian and President of Yale University. The younger Dwight was an active advocate for education reform establishing one of the earliest "infant schools" in New York in the 1830s from which experience the current work likely springs. Additionally Dwight introduced vocal music to public schools in New York and this is regarded as one of his more important books see DAB p.571. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 31444. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY pp.570-571. 87853. G. and C. Merriam unknown books
1873rif. 87855New York Cincinnati Chicago: American Book Company 1873. Octavo 19cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on front cover and decorations ruling and blocking blind stamped to spine and covers; 1213-1191pp; concludes with 12 numbered plate illustrations. Pencilled notes to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Modest shelf-wear and -soil with rubbing to cloth of spine ends and board edges and occasional tiny tears and creases to page margins; Very Good. Leader of the kindergarten movement in the U.S. and later President of the Froebel Institute of North America shares his work on Froebel's early education system with attention to children and their caregivers in the U.S. Sections of this text emphasize kindergarten culture within households and schools and focuses on tablets sticks drawing social games and songs. Hailman and his wife promoted Froebelian doctrines and the application of kindergarten principles in schools and his works on Froebel's doctrines are considered the most lucid within educational literature see DAB p. 91. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY pp.90-91. 87855. American Book Company unknown books