EMILY

ANNE ELIZA

See also:

• EMILY ANNE ELIZA SHIRREFF (1814-1897)

SHIRREFF (1814-1897)  , English pioneer in the higher education for women, was born on the 3rd of November 1814, the daughter of a rear-admiral . Both she and her sister Maria (Mrs William Grey) took a keen interest in bettering women's equipment for educational work, and, in 1858, she published Intellectual Education and its Influence on the Character and Happiness of Women . Before that the sisters had written in collaboration a novel, 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) . In 1869 Emily Shirreff was for a short time honorary mistress of Girton College, and she served for many years on the council of that institution and of the Girls' Public Day School Company . She took a leading part in establishing and developing the Maria Grey Training College for teachers and in the work of the Froebel Society, of which she was the president . She was a firm believer in Froebel's system and wrote a short memoir of him, and several books on kindergarten methods . She died in London on the loth of March 1897 .