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Description:The pioneer group of six governesses sent to Australia by Miss Maria Rye prior to the formation of the FMCES [Female Middle Class Emigration Society] scheme, arrived in Sydney on 20 September 1861. As one was to write, Sydney was then nearing the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation … Its population of about 95,000 lived in the city and in the surrounding suburbs … Farther out were the villages …At the time the governesses arrived, education in New South Wales was a haphazard affair. There were five systems, one National (Government) and four denominational (Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and Methodist), all receiving some government funds, but educating, in all, fewer than half the children of school age. There were also many hundreds of small private schools of variable quality. Many middle- and upper-class children were educated at home, but in the poorer parts of Sydney and the newly settled farming districts, large numbers of children received no schooling. The first group of FMCES governesses arrived … in high hopes that their services would be in great demand. The group – Emily Streeter, Georgiana Mounsdon, Ellen Ireland, Gertrude Gooch, Mary Phillips and Miss Butterfield – had left England just over three months earlier aboard the Rachel. The reception the governesses received was not what they had expected … Mary Phillips, regarded by [fellow governess] Gertrude Gooch as ignorant and the worst sort of person to go to Australia, wrote from Cooper (Cowper?) Street Goulburn on 16 June 1862. Commenting on an article that appeared in the London Times on the work of the FMCES, Mary Phillips wrote to Miss Rye:… "the Times I think was right, there is no opening here for a number of educated Females – a few who have friends may do very well."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882. To get started finding The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The pioneer group of six governesses sent to Australia by Miss Maria Rye prior to the formation of the FMCES [Female Middle Class Emigration Society] scheme, arrived in Sydney on 20 September 1861. As one was to write, Sydney was then nearing the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation … Its population of about 95,000 lived in the city and in the surrounding suburbs … Farther out were the villages …At the time the governesses arrived, education in New South Wales was a haphazard affair. There were five systems, one National (Government) and four denominational (Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and Methodist), all receiving some government funds, but educating, in all, fewer than half the children of school age. There were also many hundreds of small private schools of variable quality. Many middle- and upper-class children were educated at home, but in the poorer parts of Sydney and the newly settled farming districts, large numbers of children received no schooling. The first group of FMCES governesses arrived … in high hopes that their services would be in great demand. The group – Emily Streeter, Georgiana Mounsdon, Ellen Ireland, Gertrude Gooch, Mary Phillips and Miss Butterfield – had left England just over three months earlier aboard the Rachel. The reception the governesses received was not what they had expected … Mary Phillips, regarded by [fellow governess] Gertrude Gooch as ignorant and the worst sort of person to go to Australia, wrote from Cooper (Cowper?) Street Goulburn on 16 June 1862. Commenting on an article that appeared in the London Times on the work of the FMCES, Mary Phillips wrote to Miss Rye:… "the Times I think was right, there is no opening here for a number of educated Females – a few who have friends may do very well."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882. To get started finding The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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