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[Printed paper] The Educational Systems of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, with special reference to the Education of Girls and Adults, being The Report presented to the Trustees of the Gilchrist Educational Trust on a visit to Scandinavia in 1892 [...]

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Elizabeth Healey, Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers [Gilchrist Educational Trust; Sweden, Norway Finland; nineteenth-century education for girls and the handicapped in Scandinavia]
Publication details: 
London: Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. 1892. 'Published with the Authority of the Gilchrist Trustees.'
£65.00
The Educational Systems of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

8vo, [vi] + 36 pp. In original blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Aged, and with staple hole to top inner corner; in worn wraps. Stamp on front wrap of the 'Education Department Library', with red 'Education Department. Reference Library.' label on back wrap. Pp. 5-23 give a 'General Plan of Education in Girls' Schools in Scandinavia' (in eleven subsections) and discuss 'The Education of Girls after the End of the Ordinary School Course'. Also included are 'Philanthropic Schools' for 'Deaf Mutes' and 'Deformed and Crippled Children and Adults'.

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Autograph Letter Signed.

Author: 
Frances K Chadwyck Healey to [Wakefield] Christie Miller
Publication details: 
26 October 1891; on letterhead 119, Harley Street, W.
£25.00

The recipient, who died in 1898, was the possessor of a celebrated library (see Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors, p.109). 3 pages, 12mo. In good condition, with edge of blank verso of second leaf of bifoliate adhering to remains of stub. She apologises for the delay in replying and regrets that they cannot 'avail ourselves of yr. kind invitation to pay you a visit as my husband is engaged to dine out on Saturday the 31st.' He is 'hard at work again' and they have had 'a delightful holiday in Somersetshire'.

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