by [Womens Rights], Sarah Emily Davies
Davies, Emily. "Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women, 1860-1908." Collected writings of Sarah Emily Davies, a pioneering English feminist. With Prefatory Note by E.E. Constance Jones. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1910. Photo-illustrated frontispiece portrait of the author opposite full title page. (Volumes held at National Library of Scotland and University of Oxford.) Original cloth boards. 8 x 5.5 in. 228 pages. Collection of the writings of Sarah Emily Davies, a pioneering English feminist, suffragist, and campaigner for women's rights to university education, who is best remembered as a co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge University, the first university college in England to educate women. Topics on Davies's writings include: Female Physicians, Employment of Women, Medicine as a Profession for Women, University Degrees and the Education of Women, Women in the Universities of England ad Scotland, and The Women's Suffrage Movement. Davies believed that education was key to improving women's place in society. One of her life's ambitions was that women should have access to university education on exactly the same terms as men. This led to the foundation of Girton College, Cambridge, in 1869. Here as an early Headmistress, Davies provided women students with the same curriculum as that followed by male students to ensure that women's achievements would be recognized as equal. Water stain marks to half-title and few neighboring pages, to front and back end pages; occasional water mark in interior pages. Former library copy with bookplate, label, and stamp from former institution (The Working Men's College, UK). Light sunning to spine. In good condition. At the time that this description is being written, just two copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time.
(Inventory #: 17172)