ABSTRACT
Education is an experience common to almost all women in Britain. It is a compulsory experience and has been since 1880. Its influence has been enormous in propounding a set of values designed to keep women in their place and to teach them the ‘natural order’ of things. It is therefore an extremely important area of women’s history to investigate. It is also a topic on which one can expect to find a wide range of local material and research can consequently be very fruitful.
