We have persuaded ourselves that Englishmen of the present day are such a nervously excitable race, that the only chance for their descendants is to keep the mothers in a state of coma. The fathers, we think are incurable.
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If neither governesses or mothers know, how can they teach? So long as education is not provided for them, how can it be provided by them?
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| Birth: | 22nd April, 1830 |
| Death: | 13th July, 1921 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Educator, Feminist, Suffragist |
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Sarah Emily Davies was born in Carlton Crescent, Southampton, England. She was an English educator, feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access. She is principally remembered as being the co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University, the first college in England to educate women. She began campaigning for a woman's right to educate. She also became involved in the Suffrage movement, which centred on a woman's right to vote. She wrote two books include: The Higher Education of Women and Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women, 1860–1908.
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