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EMILY ANNE ELIZA SHIRREFF (1814-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . Both she and her See also:sister Maria (Mrs See also: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 . 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) . In 1869 Emily See also:Shirreff was for a See also:short See also: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 . 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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