ABSTRACT
In the second half of the century, female organists in England had more choices for music education outside the home, should their families permit it, than had been the case earlier in the century. The announcement was as much a comment on the status of organ pedal boards as a comment on the skill of female organists as pedallists. The school's main emphasis was the instruction of students in organ and church music. The National Training School for Music and the Royal College of Music accepted female organ students. Until 1885, copies of successful compositions for music degrees at Oxford had to be deposited in the 'Music School' library; beginning in 1886, all such exercises were deposited in the Bodleian Library. Although the Music Section of the Bodleian Library maintains a complete list of the exercises dating back to the eighteenth century, no record exists of an exercise.
