unknown (1893) Lady Lecturers [17]. The Woman's Herald (Women's Penny Paper), 1 (17). p. 272.
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"At the Women Workers' Conference, held at Bristol last November, a scheme was made public for providing a new and congenial field of work for women. This was a plan for sending women lecturers to various districts throughout the country, in order to supplement or prepare the way for University Extension centres [...]. A council and committee were formed, and in Febuary last the Association of Women Pioneer Lecturers became a fact. It is hoped that several classes of audiences may be reached by those lectures, amongst others, those in suburban districts, rural village populations, members of co-operative societies and polytechnics [...]. The subjects of the courses of lectures will be manifold, and will include history, literature, art, economics, social science, cooking, needlework, nursing, housework, shorthand, type-writing, book-keeping, sloyd, fruit and plant growing, bee culture, wood-carving, gilding, clay modelling, &c. Already five successful courses of lectures have been given [...]."
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