TY - BOOK ID - 5425562 TI - Feminists and bureaucrats : a study in the development of girls' education in the nineteenth century PY - 1980 SN - 0521228808 0521080487 0511896336 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Public schools, Endowed (Great Britain) KW - Education and state KW - Education KW - History KW - -Women KW - -Endowed public schools (Great Britain) KW - Endowed schools (Great Britain) KW - Public schools (Great Britain) KW - Private schools KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - -History KW - Government policy KW - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) KW - History. KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Histoire KW - Endowed public schools (Great Britain). KW - Education&delete& KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5425562 AB - A radical measure, the Endowed Schools Act of 1869, empowered Commissioners to prise endowment from the old grammar schools and to set up, for the first time, grammar schools for girls. Sheila Fletcher shows how, in practice, such attempts met determined opposition and argues that what was actually secured for girls depended largely on the zeal and persistence of the civil servants administering the Act. The first of these, the Endowed Schools Commissioners, presided over by Gladstone's friend and relative Lord Lyttelton, were staunch supporters of Women's education, but zeal proved their undoing. In 1874 they were dismissed by the Conservatives and the working of the Act was placed in the 'safe' hands of the Charity Commissioners. Feminist concern that girls would suffer from this changeover proved well founded; their share in endowments fell sharply in the reign of the Charity Commissioners which lasted until the end of the century. Indeed, the contrast between the two Commissions highlights the extent to which progress in an area dear to the heart of the women's movement was determined by administrators. ER -