ABSTRACT
In this chapter the organizers' methods are discussed and the system they created described. The system they established was novel in that for the first time women's education was organized in a clearly defined way around academic as well as social criteria. The chapter begins by giving some idea of the overall scope of the reforms. It is impressive. Indeed, in 1894, the Bryce Commission on Secondary Education recorded their opinion that no change had been more conspicuous in the thirty years since the Schools Inquiry Commission than the improvement in girls' secondary education and the creation of colleges for women. The fact that the organizers themselves frequently assisted in the founding and/or sat on the governing bodies of a number of different educational institutions also served to integrate these organizations both vertically and horizontally. Sometimes the overlap between the governing bodies of two institutions would be particularly pronounced.
