Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900
Subtitle: Minerva to Madonna (Women in Irish History)
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: April 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780716526506
Subjects: Education; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; History - General History; Social Science; Sociology; Ireland; Women's Studies - History; Europe - Ireland; History; Sex differences in education; Social conditions; Women
Description: "This book is the only complete study of the formal education of Irish women and girls. Based on extensive research in original sources, it presents a fascinating social history of the educational experience of the female sex in Ireland between 1700 and 1900. The book, which examines its theme in four major sections, covers every aspect of formal - and indeed informal - schooling and tuition. Consequently, the reader is introduced to such areas as private education, orphanages, industrial schools, national schools, convents, intermediate schools and colleges of higher education."--Jacket.