First Edition of Shirreff's First Independent Work
Intellectual Education. And Its influence on the Character and Happiness of Women.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858.
Full Description:
SHIRREFF, Emily. Intellectual Education, And Its influence on the Character and Happiness of Women. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858.
First edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 197 x 125 mm). vii, [1, blank], 424 pp. We could find only one copy at auction in the past 20 years.
Publisher's full brown cloth. Boards stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards with some rubbing and bumping to edges. Some minor chipping and wear to head and tail of spine. Spine lightly sunned. Without front endpapers. Rear brown coated endpapers. Some occasional spotting along fore-edge margin. Still overall very good.
"The Shirreff sisters, Emily (1814-97) and Maria (later Grey; 1816-1906) were pioneers in the field of education for girls in the wider context of women's rights. They jointly wrote the influential "Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women" (1850), and Emily was briefly the principal of the college at Hitchin which became Girton College, Cambridge. The sisters founded the Girls' Public Day School Company in 1872; by 1905 it had opened 37 girls' schools across Britain... [Intellectual Education, Emily's first independent work] considers the theory and purpose of education, and the particular issues of its application to girls, before suggesting appropriate curricula (including advice on the care of health and morals) for each age group from seven to eighteen, with a final chapter on life after the classroom and 'some peculiarities of woman's social position'. " (US Department of Education).
HBS 69491.
$2,500.
Price: $2,500.00
Item #69491