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ITS INFLUENCE ON THE CHARACTER
AND HAPPINESS OF WOMEN.

BY

EMILY SHIRREFF,

ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THOUGHTS ON SELF-CULTURE.'

1873. 6c6.24

By exchange of duplicates.

[The Author reserves the right of translation.]

LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL VIEWS

pp. 1-30

Importance attached to education in the present day, 1; Neglect of

principles, 3; Objects of liberal and professional education con-

founded, 5; Consequences to those classes to whom knowledge

brings no worldly advancement, 6; One great purpose of education,

7; Two evils resulting from forgetting that purpose-First, Seve-

rance of intellectual and moral training, 9 ; Second, Knowledge loved

only for its market value, 15; Consequences of the misuse of

leisure, 18; Over-value for professional occupation, 18; Preparation

for life and real life, 20; Those who have most leisure need most

education, 23; Women should keep up the disinterested love of

knowledge, 26; Frivolity compatible with information as a fashion,

27; Effects to be expected from a spread of real mental cultivation,

28; Women require higher education precisely because they have no

outward necessity to labour, 29.

CHAPTER II.

APPLICATION OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO FEMALE EDUCATION, pp. 31-88

Section 1.-Education of girls more difficult than that of boys, 32; Con-

sciously or unconsciously, parents must educate their children, 34;

A mother's studies, 35; Without a definite purpose, real education

impossible, 39; Practical education for different classes, 41; Short

period of female education as compared with that of men, 42; Years

telling differently on men and women, 44; Twofold task of edu-