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A radical measure, the Endowed Schools Act of 1869, empowered Commissioners to prise endowment from the old grammar schools and to set up, for the first time, grammar schools for girls. Sheila Fletcher shows how, in practice, such attempts met determined opposition and argues that what was actually secured for girls depended largely on the zeal and persistence of the civil servants administering the Act. The first of these, the Endowed Schools Commissioners, presided over by Gladstone's friend and relative Lord Lyttelton, were staunch supporters of Women's education, but zeal proved their undoing. In 1874 they were dismissed by the Conservatives and the working of the Act was placed in the 'safe' hands of the Charity Commissioners. Feminist concern that girls would suffer from this changeover proved well founded; their share in endowments fell sharply in the reign of the Charity Commissioners which lasted until the end of the century. Indeed, the contrast between the two Commissions

This book looks at the difference between flexible and rigid objects. Using familiar objects, readers discover how flexible and rigid objects are used in everyday life. Readers are encouraged to ident

The iOPD Reading Libraryr offers nine readers, each available with an Audio CD that can be purchased separately. Each title is based on a topic in the iDictionaryr. They are written at approximately a

The iWorkplace Reading Libraryr contains the three readers from the iOPD Reading Libraryr with Workplace as a primary strand: iA Big Night at Maria's Cafer, iMath and Maxr, and iAn Important Guest a

" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky Winona L. Fletcher, Senior Editor Sheila Mason Burton, Associate Editor James E. Wallace, Associate E