The Life of a Working-Class Girl
byI left the factory for a short break and went into service when I was fifteen. Mother would have preferred me to be placed…
Women
The women, from outwardly feisty to quietly mutinous, who made the Edwardian era so colorful.
Margot Asquith on her Early Education
byMargot Asquith (1864 – 1945) was born to Scottish industrialist Sir Charles Tennant and his retiring wife Emma. As the sixth daughter out of…
The Education of Girls and Women
byThough the educational acts passed after the 1870s provided free, mandatory schooling for both sexes, girls were not only educated differently than boys, but…