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Focusing on 29 women members of the London School Board, this book examines the link between private lives and public practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. It looks at the women's role as educational policy makers, concentrating on issues such as gender and power, and gender and welfare.

A detailed examination of a distinctive group of female religious communities, founded by royal families in Anglo-Saxon England, this title shows how some remarkable women were able both to run major religious houses and to intervene in contemporary family politics.