Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors ix
5. The Historiography of Women Teachers: A Retrospect 1
6. Women Teaching in the Private Sphere
7. Schoolmistresses and Headmistresses: Elites and Education in Nineteenth-Century England 37
8. 'Mere Accomplishments'? Melbourne's Early Ladies' Schools Reconsidered 71
9. 'The poor widow, the ignoramus and the humbug': An Examination of Rhetoric and Reality in Victoria's 1905 Act for the Registration of Teachers and Schools 92
10. Women Teaching in the Public Sphere
11. 'Daughters into Teachers': Educational and Demographic Influences on the Transformation of Teaching into 'Women's Work' in America 115
12. Teachers' Work: Changing Patterns and Perceptions in the Emerging School Systems of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Central Canada 136
13. Mary Helena Stark: The Troubles of a Nineteenth-Century State School Teacher 160
14. Feminists in Teaching: The National Union of Women Teachers, 1920-1945 182
15. 'I am ready to be of assistance when I can': Lottie Bowron and Rural Women Teachers in British Columbia 202
16. Women Teaching in Higher Education
17. Here Was Fellowship: A Social Portrait of Academic Women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920 233
18. Scholarly Passion: Two Persons Who Caught It 258
19. Selected Bibliography 285