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100 _aBellaigue, Christina De
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245 _aEducating women: Schooling and identity in England and France 1800-1867
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2007
300 _axv, 276 p.
_bIncludes bibliographical reference and index
520 _aIn 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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