Good as boys
Penelope Fitzgerald, 15 August 1991
The Best Type of Girl: A History of the Girls’ Independent Schools
by Gillian Avery.
Deutsch, 410 pp., £20, January 1991,0 233 98642 1 Show More
by Gillian Avery.
Deutsch, 410 pp., £20, January 1991,
There’s something about a convent girl
edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan.
Virago, 217 pp., £4.99, January 1991,1 85381 308 7 Show More
edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan.
Virago, 217 pp., £4.99, January 1991,
“... of poor clergy, as governesses. (Something is said, though, in defence of the Reverend Carus Wilson, decimator of the Brontës, and his Cowan Bridge School.) The High Schools, with the honourable exception of Manchester, lagged behind at first, but by the 1870s and 1890s, although there were still very few women on their governing bodies, they had ... ”