Intellectually, the overlap was steadily increasing, and it was for this common ...

Intellectually, the overlap was steadily increasing, and it was for this common province of taste, criticism, intelligence, and sympathy that wise mothers trained their daughters, sensible girls trained themselves, and the more fortunate husbands trained their brides. Tennyson, always the most punctual exponent of contemporary feeling, published The Princess in 1847, a year in which many minds were converging on the problem.

With the express approval of Queen Victoria, a Maid of Honour planned a College for Women, King's College undertook to train and examine governesses, and Bedford College started with classes in a private house.

From these three movements all the higher education of women in England has proceeded, but by the sixties it had not proceeded very far. At Cheltenham and North London College, where those distinguished but unfortunately named ladies, Miss Beale and Miss Buss, held sway, the country had models capable of a rich

development, and the age of development begins when,

in 1865, Cambridge, with qualms, had just allowed girls to sit for Local examinations.

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