Table of Contents

Part 1 Women's sphere is home

Victorian domestic ideology
"ladies" and "women"

Part 2 Education and working-class girls

dame schools
Sunday schools
weekday schools
expansion of grants for domestic subjects
scholarship system
why did mass schooling arise? Part 3 "Good wives and mothers" - educational provision and working-class women
adult Sunday schools
mechanics' institutes
working men's and working women's colleges
evening schools
The Women's Co-operative Guild

Part 4 Education and middle-class girls

home education
fashionable boarding schools
small day schools and cheaper boarding schools
why did the women's education reform movement arise?
new academic schools for middle-class girls - high schools, girls' public boarding schools, feminist awakenings

Part 5 "Ladylike homemakers" - educational provision for middle class women

adult education - scientific and cultural societies, mechanics' institute and working men's college movements, women's institutes and townswomen's guilds, informal self education
higher education - ladies colleges, university education

Part 6 Echoes into the late 20th century