Maria Grey

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Standard Name: Grey, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Georgina Shirreff
Married Name: Maria Georgina Grey
MG wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her early productions were literary: she collaborated with her sister on a narrative and a novel, and then produced a second novel independently. Her later writings were political, arguing the need for improvements to women's education, as well as addressing issues relating to the suffrage movement. Through her writings and through direct action, MG worked to ensure an improvement in opportunities for women's education.
Low-resolution black-and-white photo of Maria Grey sitting in a chair,holding a book. She has a white cap tied round her head and she is wearing glasses. Her dress is buttoned up the front and topped by a short jacket.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Author summary Emily Shirreff
ES lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These...
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
The Athenæum regarded FPC 's book as a serious contribution to theological debate, though it considered the first essay the weakest. Her rejection of the thinking that fed into social Darwinism—she noted that Darwin had...
Residence Emily Shirreff
After four years of living abroad, ES and her sister Maria returned to England because of a cholera outbreak in Gibraltar.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Textual Production Emily Shirreff
By 4 May 1850, ES and her sister Maria collaborated on the tract Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1175 (1850): 474
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
ES published Letters from Spain and Barbary, written in collaboration with her sister Maria (later Maria Grey ).
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.
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
ES and her sister published a novel entitled Passion and Principle, designed to enforce their own beliefs about these qualities.
The Feminist Companion, the Dictionary of National Biography (both the old and new...
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
Further to her work as honorary secretary of the organization which she and her sister had founded, ES co-edited the Journal of the Women's Education Union.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Travel Emily Shirreff
By 1847, ES was living in her mother 's home in Lowndes Square in London with her sister and brother-in-law .
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Travel Emily Shirreff
ES , suffering from ill health, travelled with her sister to Italy and Switzerland; they then went on to Germany, where they visited training institutes for teachers.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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