History of Women's Education in Englandaa by PURVIS
The book argues that many women of both these classes struggled against these views that were so sedulously upheld by their husbands and fathers.
Part 1 Women's sphere is home
Victorian domestic ideology
"ladies" and "women"
Part 2 Education and working-class girls
dame schools
Sunday schools
weekday schools
expansion of grants for domestic subjects
scholarship system
why did mass schooling arise? Part 3 "Good wives and mothers" - educational provision and working-class women
adult Sunday schools
mechanics' institutes
working men's and working women's colleges
evening schools
The Women's Co-operative Guild
Part 4 Education and middle-class girls
home education
fashionable boarding schools
small day schools and cheaper boarding schools
why did the women's education reform movement arise?
new academic schools for middle-class girls - high schools, girls' public boarding schools, feminist awakenings
Part 5 "Ladylike homemakers" - educational provision for middle class women
adult education - scientific and cultural societies, mechanics' institute and working men's college movements, women's institutes and townswomen's guilds, informal self education
higher education - ladies colleges, university education
Part 6 Echoes into the late 20th century