EMILY See also:ANNE ELIZA See also:SHIRREFF (1814-1897)
, See also:English See also:pioneer in the higher See also:education for See also:women, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:November 1814, the daughter of a See also:rear-See also:admiral
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Both she and her See also:sister Maria (Mrs See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Grey) took a keen See also:interest in bettering women's equipment for educational See also:work, and, in 1858, she published Intellectual Education and its See also:Influence on the See also:Character and Happiness of Women
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Before that the sisters had written in collaboration a novel, See also:Passion and Principle (1841), marked with that serious sense of the deficiencies in women's education, to remedy which they did so much, and Thoughts on Self-Culture addressed to Women (185o)
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In 1869 Emily See also:Shirreff was for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time honorary See also:mistress of Girton See also:College, and she served for many years on the See also:council of that institution and of the Girls' Public See also:Day School See also:Company
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She took a leading See also:part in establishing and developing the Maria Grey Training College for teachers and in the work of the See also:Froebel Society, of which she was the See also:president
.
She was a See also:firm believer in Froebel's See also:system and wrote a short memoir of him, and several books on See also:kindergarten methods
.
She died in See also:London on the loth of See also:March 1897
.
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