Brian Simon used the phrase 'site of struggle' to describe the class-based inequalities that were played out in the provisions for English compulsory education. In the nineteenth century, the growth of the state system for the working class alongside the predominantly middle-class independent sector simply confirmed existing class hierarchies with…

Describes the education provided to girls in the Meeting Schools that were eleven Quaker schools created by the Society of Friends in nineteenth-century England and also in private schools and home-based education. Addresses the relationship between education and the disproportionate representation of Quaker women in nineteenth-century social…