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Margaret Bailey : pioneering headmistress of Ascham School / Jane Gilmour.

By: Publisher: North Melbourne, Victoria Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiii, 189 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1925333671
  • 9781925333671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 371.2012082
Summary: "Businesswoman and educational innovator, Margaret Bailey was one of a small number of women who transformed education for girls in the first half of the twentieth century. She was committed to providing opportunities for independence and educational equality for young women. She was the headmistress and owner of Ascham School from 1914 to 1946. Ascham School was then, and is today, one of Sydney’s most prestigious private girls’ schools. This was a period of great change in the education of girls and in the development of educational theory. Margaret Bailey was an educational pioneer, introducing the revolutionary Dalton Plan in 1922, her most significant legacy to the school. Jane Gilmour is the great-niece of Margaret Bailey. She did not attend Ascham School, although her mother and two aunts did. To write this biography she has drawn on family memories and stories, as well as school records and the recollections of former students and teachers."--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 371.2012082 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL (Available for research in the library) Signed by author 67557

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (page 175-179) and index.

"Businesswoman and educational innovator, Margaret Bailey was one of a small number of women who transformed education for girls in the first half of the twentieth century. She was committed to providing opportunities for independence and educational equality for young women. She was the headmistress and owner of Ascham School from 1914 to 1946. Ascham School was then, and is today, one of Sydney’s most prestigious private girls’ schools. This was a period of great change in the education of girls and in the development of educational theory. Margaret Bailey was an educational pioneer, introducing the revolutionary Dalton Plan in 1922, her most significant legacy to the school. Jane Gilmour is the great-niece of Margaret Bailey. She did not attend Ascham School, although her mother and two aunts did. To write this biography she has drawn on family memories and stories, as well as school records and the recollections of former students and teachers."--Back cover.

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