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The Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 25, No.3, 1981 the home' in a society which increasingly embraced the work ethic and reward for individual merit. Section two, 'the agents', is not an exercise in hagiography, but rather a flirtation with the sociologist's concept of 'networks' as agents of social change. The kinship ties, friendships, and chance encounters of the key personnel against a background of the evangelical, non-conformist, clerical/academic society of mid-century England are painstakingly documented and convincingly argued as agents of social change. Bryant, however, is still happy to grapple with the individual moral and intellectual con sciousness of Elizabeth Garrett, Dorothea Beale, Sophia Jex Blake and others. Given this successful blending of social networks with sensitive biography, perhaps section three, 'the campaign', should have been subsumed under the rubric of 'the agents' as well. For example, the informal coming together of the reformers as the 'Langham Place Ladies', their publication of the English Women'sJournal, the tactical use made of individual men of influence, and the participation by the women educationists in the infant National Association for the Promotion of Social Science would all seem to sit more happily in section two. The final section, 'the achievement', takes
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Nov 1, 1981
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