Category Archives: Women’s Education

A Matter of Class? Higher Learning Opportunities for Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain

In this blog, Kaitlin Mills explores the higher learning available to women in Britain during the nineteenth century and how these opportunities varied drastically between the classes. Higher learning, in the context of nineteenth-century Britain’s educational opportunities, was education completed … Continue reading

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A matter of right rather than privilege? The opening up of higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand 1877–1920

In this blog, Tanya Fitzgerald explores the history of women’s access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand across the end of the nineteenth century. In July 1877 amidst much fanfare witnessed by approximately 1,000 invited guests, Kate Milligan Edger … Continue reading

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Women’s Education

This blog begins a new series, edited by Kaitlin Mills, dedicated to exploring the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available globally to women from the nineteenth century onwards. Higher learning A basic education is something that has … Continue reading

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