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Women’s Education in the 19th Century

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Women’s Education in the 19th Century

Education for working-class women focused on domestic skills and basic literacy and numeracy.

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Formal education for women

  • The 19th century marked the start of women having access to formal education.
  • Schools such as Cheltenham Ladies College (est. 1853) were created to provide boarding school education for wealthy families.
  • By 1864, there were 12 secondary schools for girls.
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University for women

  • Women were not expected to go to university.
  • Oxford and Cambridge did not found their first women's colleges until between the 1860s and 1870s.

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