Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
To the Ladies, I may say a parting word. I have exposed myself to adverse criticisms, if not obloquy, for venturing to advocate the claims of the female sex to a share in the Endowment. I accept it cheerfully, feeling confident of your moral support and sympathy, and backed in my opinion by many of the most eminent writers on Education, and distinguished advocates of the progressive enlightenment of all classes of the English Community.
Mr Carey Tyso, Wallingford, 1871Trustees and townspeople
As we know the outcome, there is something poignant in the high hopes, not to say ideals, with which the Commissioners began their work. They had no reason to fear publicity, Hobhouse told Fitch in the spring of 1870 when the Bristol case was just under way, ‘on the contrary they will look to the public to support an enactment which brings them great benefits’. Of the Bristol public it can only be said that they stopped short of burning Fitch in effigy. Of the rest, that by the following year Lyttelton had sunk to the weary hope that ‘the time would come when they should cease to be called plunderers’; two years more, and their opponents taunted that the Commission was ‘on its death-bed’ ; and the year after, these words came true. At the end of December 1874 the Endowed Schools Commission was disbanded, ‘slain by the force of public opinion’.
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- Feminists and BureaucratsA Study in the Development of Girls' Education in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 86 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980