This book examines the education of working-class and middle-class girls between 1800-1914. It argues that an influential middle-class ideology advocated that a

The role of women in policy-making has been largely neglected in conventional social and political histories. This book opens up this field of study, taking the

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women in the context of both Protestant and Cathol

Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult wo

Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of