ABSTRACT
It will be remembered that from the very beginning Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff had been concerned with the need to provide a supply of adequately trained teachers and that it was partly on their initiative that the Froebel Society was able to form a branch in England in 1874. Emily Shirreff was the second President of the Society: her generosity with money she had inherited from family friends helped it through its early difficulties, and her papers on the theory and practice of kindergarten teaching impressed a largely indifferent public with the necessity of training teachers of young children.
