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Article: THE GLASGOW ASSOCIATION FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN, 1878 TO 1883.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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At a dinner party in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1868, conversation turned to the issue of higher education for women. Mrs. Jean Campbell, the wife of a wealthy dye manufacturer, asked Glasgow University Professor John Nichol to offer a series of lectures on English literature for women, to which he readily agreed. Though previous efforts at creating a women's college in the city had failed, the time now seemed right to make a fresh attempt. This dinner party was the first step in the formation of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women, which would later become Queen Margaret College.(1)
The progress of women's access to university education in ...