TY - BOOK AU - Hilton,Mary AU - Hirsch,Pam TI - Practical visionaries: women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930 T2 - Women and men in history SN - 0582404312 AV - LC2042. P72 2000 U1 - 371.8209410903 PY - 2000/// CY - Harlow, England, New York PB - Longman KW - Women KW - Education KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Women in education KW - Women educators KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index; List of Figures and Illustrations --; List of Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Publisher's Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Pt. 1; The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators --; 1; 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy --; 2; Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' --; 3; Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century --; Pt. 2; The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women --; 4; Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' --; 5; Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women --; 6; Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women --; 7; Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women --; Pt. 3; Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women --; 8; Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 --; 9; Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College --; Pt. 4; The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System --; 10; 'Mrs. Roadknight Reports.': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education --; 11; English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor --; Pt. 5; Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century --; 12; The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation --; 13; Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives --; Select Bibliography --; Index ER -