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I went to boarding school (not Eton or Harrow!) from the age of 6 to the age of 17 in the 80s and 90s. A mixed boys and girls prep school till I was 14, then an all boys senior school for the rest. Both were in the North of England.
Sep 3, 2015 · Anne Eliot was sent to boarding school after her mother’s death. While Caroline and Louisa’s parents inferred reasoning does have an educational bent, the education they would have received was likely to be focused on manners and etiquette rather than what we would consider to be education today.
Sep 20, 2010 · In 1782 at the age of 7 Jane Austen went to school for the first time. Theories go that she wanted to go to school because her elder sister Cassandra was being sent to Mrs Cawley’s school in Oxford to accompany their cousin Jane Cooper who was being sent there. Cassandra was to go as a companion for Jane Cooper.
- Medieval “Education” and Class
- Slow Development
- Advancements in The Nineteenth Century
- Women’s Education Finally modernises
- However…
For a long time, girls’ education was limited to members of the upper and middle class. In Medieval times, the sons of wealthy families were often educated through the church by monks and nuns who could read and write in Latin, but it was rare that daughters also received this education, unless they were to become nuns themselves. Any education tha...
In the 17th century, numerous boarding schools for girls were established in England where girls were taught reading, writing, arithmetic and music, and the 18th century saw the rise of Blue Coat charity schools. Despite these advancements, the Georgian period saw educational opportunities for women restricted as the ‘Separate Spheres’ ideology beg...
By the beginning of the 19th century, women had grown frustrated at the poor education available to them, especially as the Industrial Revolution gave rise to increased opportunities on offer to men. And so, women became active in seeking out these same opportunities. Many girls’ boarding schools were established in the mid-to-late-1800s, and the f...
A huge expansion of universities in the 1960s provided even more training and education opportunities for both men and women, and the Sex Discrimination Act of 1972 meant that women could no longer be discriminated against in areas such as housing, employment, and education.
Today in the UK, girls generally outperform boys at school and women outnumber men at university, and yet only 20% of UK professors are women. Whilst equality in education has come a long way since the Middle Ages, there’s still a way to go before women’s employment equality catches up.
- Candice West
This group of newly settled Ohio Quakers, most of whom migrated north in protest of the institution of slavery in the South, began plans for a boarding school for both boys and girls as early as 1814, to be modeled on Quaker boarding schools in Philadelphia.
Aug 1, 2012 · In his Travels Through England in 1782, German traveler Karl Phillip Moritz describes learning academies, head masters, and boarding schools. From his observations, one gains a sense of what life must have been like for the Austens and their pupils:
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Their education also differed significantly from that of the poor and working class child. Boys went to private schools and then on to secondary schools and universities. They lived at home or attended boarding schools where they came home only on holidays.
