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be inspired by the entry of women into educational establishments
with reference to great Elizabeth Crawford @womanandsphere
currently reading Enterprising Women
https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/enterprising-women/
found out some fascinating fact about the struggle for girl’s education in Scotland

Enterprising Women | Francis Boutle Publishers

The story of a group of women around the Garrett family, who in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth changed the position of women in Britain forever.

https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/enterprising-women/

Mary Crudelius (née McLean) (23 February 1839 – 24 July 1877) was a British campaigner for women's education who lived in Leith, Edinburgh in 1867 when she spoke out at a ladies' discussion group called the Edinburgh Essay Society. .

Not long afterwards some of these women, including Crudelius, Madeline Daniell and Sarah Mair, set up the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association (ELEA) with the aim of ensuring equal educational opportunities for women

Here is her memoir https://archive.org/details/amemoirmrscrude00crudgoog
Describes the setting up of a series of lectures pages 42-46 have costings of how much to hire a room , a professor and the fees. They aimed for 75 students but in the end got over 240!
http://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php/Foundation_of_Edinburgh_Ladies_Education_Association,_1868

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