Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Elizabeth Senior
Standard Name: Senior, Elizabeth
Used Form: Mrs Nassau Senior
Used Form: Elizabeth Hughes
Used Form: Jane Elizabeth Senior
Used Form: Jane Elisabeth Senior
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Menella Bute Smedley | In her later years, MBS
devoted much of her time to philanthropic work. Primarily concerned with the plight of children, she served on the staff of Mrs Nassau Senior
in her work as a workhouse... |
| Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | She met him again through their mutual friend Mrs Nassau Senior
. Watts's biographer Ronald Chapman
suggests that Watts needed Barrington as a mirror to show him his reflection, to present to him an encouraging... |
| Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Some of her closest friends were prominent feminists, and they were among those soonest willing to flout convention and visit her after her union to Lewes. Despite the social and spiritual gulf between them, GE |
| Textual Production | Menella Bute Smedley | MBS
edited and introduced Boarding-Out and Pauper Schools, Especially for Girls, which reprints the principal reports on Pauper Education contributed by Mrs Nassau Senior
to the Blue Book for 1873-4. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Menella Bute Smedley | The former Elizabeth Hughes
, wife of Nassau John Senior
, became the first woman inspector of workhouses and pauper schools. |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She ranges through much of literary history, paying attention to figures such as Anna Seward
and Mrs John Taylor
(mother of Sarah Austin
) as well as men like Charles Dickens
. Among her non-literary... |
Timeline
January 1873: Jane Elizabeth Senior was appointed as a...
Building item
January 1873
Jane Elizabeth Senior
was appointed as a (temporary) government inspector of pauper schools and workhouses: the first woman to hold this office.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
331
18 January 1874: Mrs Nassau Senior was appointed as the first...
National or international item
18 January 1874
Mrs Nassau Senior
was appointed as the first female Inspector of workhouse and pauper schools: the appointment was at first temporary, but became permanent the next month.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
153, 180
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
30, 32
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
169
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under William Nassau Senior
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