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Girton
Davies founds in 1869
Queen’s College
London 1848 for governesses
Cheltenham
Ladies’ College 1853
Newnham
Sidgwick and Millicent Garret Fawcett in 1871
Lectures for Ladies
At Cambridge from 1869
Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge
1869, Sidgwick involved
Extension of Cambridge local exams to Girls
Under 18
trial in 1863, established in 1865
Somerville
Green and his wife, Oxford, 1879
same year he sat on committee to form an OX Women’s college where distinction not made on religious background
Education act
Elementary Education Act 1880
compulsory for all children 5-10
raised to 11 in 1893
raised to 12 in 99
Intermediate difficulty exams
Sidgwick helped institute in Cam for women
1869
Birmingham Uni
Formed of Queen’s College medical school (1825) and Mason Science College (1875 founded by industrialist and philanthropist)
Vestiges
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
1844
wide readership
synthesis of a bunch of ologies: evolution brought into public arena
X club
Huxley, Tyndall and Spencer
dining club supporting theory of natural selection and academic liberalism
Agnosticism
coined by Huxley in 1869
existence of the divine as unknowable
Darwin’s cryptic line
light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history
Richard Owen
opposition to Huxley, Hooker and Darwin: review of Origins tore it to shreds and attacked Darwin’s credentials
Disraeli
after convos on ape origins, declared self ‘on the side of the angels’
Wallace text name
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart indefinitely from the original type
sent to Darwin in 1858
Origins
November 1859
written in 13 months after 2 decades of research
Huxley-Wilberforce debate
1860
7 months after Origins
Wilberforce as a bishop and a great speaker. Criticised Darwin on scientific grounds, a lack of facts: arguments mentioned geological record and fossils and lack of intermediate steps; evidence of mummies and no human change in 4000 years.
Moneky remark most remembered
Charles Lycell
Principles of Geology, 1830-33 3 vols
the controversial attempt to reconcile the implications of geological time with the Bible.
Palace of Westminster
1840-1876
Pugin and Charles Barry
inspiration of chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey
Ecclesiastical style
Church Building Act 1818
Ecclesiastical society
Cambridge group
research and advocacy of gothic as english rather than french
opposed to Pugin (‘s catholocism)
Pugin
Contrasts, 1836
1440 vs. 1840 English village
Pugin’s dad
Specimens of Gothic Architecture (1821)
Oxford Natural History Museum
1855-1860
Predominantly by Woodward
carvings by the O’ Shea Brothers
Acland
Sir Henry Acland
Initiating construction of Natural history musuem by claiming this as a balance to the one-sidedness of Ox curriculum (history, theology, history, philosophy)
common idea of Nature as the second book of God
Science at Oxford
Honours School of Natural Science from 1850
Great Exhibition
1851 Great Exhibition
Crystal Palace
Red House
designed by Philip Webb
Morris lived there 1860-1865
medieval spirit
Rossetti: ‘more a poem than a house’
Morris socialism thing
1884
The Socialist League
Morris press
Kelmscott Press
1891
Morris and Webb Buildings society
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Webb house not red house
Standon House
Macaulay death
1859
Nun painting
Charles Collins, Convent Thoughts 1850-1
Isabella
Millais, 1848
Ophelia
Millais, 1851-2
Ruskin woman
Anna Elizabeth Blunden
angels in the house
Coventry Patmore
narrative poem about ideal marriage
