Schoolmistresses amd Headmistresses Elites and Education in Nineteenth–Century England

• Published in: Women Who Taught p. 37
• Main Author: Joyce Senders Pedersen
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press 01.03.1991
• Subjects: Academic communities; Behavioral sciences; Business; Business operations; College students; Colleges; Commerce; Daughters; Day schools; Economic disciplines; Economics; Education; Educational institutions; Educational personnel; Educators; Employment; Families; Family members; Fees; Financial transactions; Formal education; Gender studies; Human societies; Labor economics; Occupations; Payments; Private schools; Public schools; Schools; Social institutions; Social sciences; Sociology; Students; Teachers; Universities; Womens education
• ISBN: 0802067859; 9780802067852
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442683570.6

Ladies who kept private schools attended by young ladies are familiar figures in Regency and Victorian novels: ridiculous ladies, such as Miss Pinkerton, who kept a rather elegant establishment inVanity Fair;sensible ladies like Mrs Goddard, whose more modest school was attended by Jane Austen’sEmma;scheming ladies such as Mrs Kirkpatrick, who set her cap for Molly Gibson’s father in Mrs Gaskell’sWives and Daughters.Memorable mostly for their personal quirks, their qualities of character, these ladies all fit comfortably in the framework of the domestic drama. Accounts of real-life ladies who kept fashionable private schools in the