TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellaigue, Christina De
TI  - Educating women: Schooling and identity in England and France 1800-1867
SN  - 9780199289981
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N2  - In the first part of the nineteeth century, an increasing number of middle class families were taking the education of their daughters seriously, 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 in the development of the teaching profession, and in the expansion of secondary education
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