Item #17260 Des faculties humaines et de leur developpement par l'education. J. Marchef Girard.
Des faculties humaines et de leur developpement par l'education.
Des faculties humaines et de leur developpement par l'education.

Des faculties humaines et de leur developpement par l'education.

Paris: Guillaumin et Ce, Libraires, 1865. Spine partially faded and a little scuffed. Some foxing to the acidic endpapers, but none internally. A very good copy. Contemporary leather over decorative boards, gilt spine. Octavo. . [4], 444 pp. Item #17260

The author, whose dates are not known to us, was the proprietor of Ecole Normale Supérieure, a finishing school in Paris. She advocated an educational plan based upon three principals, that education is the basis of a healthy society, that everyone was eminently educable, and that women as well as men should receive a superior education. One of her students was the British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, who speaks of Marchef Girard as being "a woman who believed that girls' education should be quite as thorough as the education of boys. She included chemistry and other sciences in the course, and in addition to embroidery she had her girls taught bookkeeping. When I was nineteen I finally returned from school in Paris and took my place in my father's home as a finished young lady" (quoted in the Spartacus Educational website).

Marchef Girard addresses female education at several points in this book. Her other publications include Les femmes: leur passé, leur present, leur avenir (1859) and Cours d'economie domestique (1886).

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