Benutzer:He3nry/Rachel Scott
Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Infobox person Rachel Scott, born Rachel Cook (8 March 1848 – 27 November 1905),[1] was a British women's education reformer, based in Manchester, who organised and promoted equality for women.
Early life and personal education
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Rachel Susan Cook came from an academic family in St Andrews, one of five sisters. Her paternal line included three generations of divinity professors, including a Moderator of the Church of Scotland.[1] Her education was at St Andrew's senior school, Madras College; by a private tutor; and then as one of the first 6 female students enrolled at the College for Women at Benslow House in Hitchin, which later became the University of Cambridge's Girton College,[2] with another Scottish woman, Louisa Innes Lumsden.[3] At this time, such women graduates were "rather special people ... exceptionally able, determined, ambitious".[4] In 1873, Cook "graduated" as one of the first women at the University of Cambridge with honours in the classic Tripos, at second class.
This achievement was significant given the challenges women faced in higher education. Sarah Woodhead, Cook and Lumsden were considered "the Girton pioneers", with Cook also described as "a tall, dark, willowy beauty with the melancholy air of one of Rossetti's nymphs, classical features and graceful movements.[5] George Eliot described her as "sylphlike", and the most beautiful woman she had ever seen; and there still remains in the minds of those who knew her then a memorable picture of her uncommonness, her dramatic instinct and critical quickness, and her eagerness and radiance of mind.[1]Vorlage:Citation needed
Campaign for women's education
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]In 1874 she married Charles Scott, known as C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian,[6] and moved to Manchester, where she soon joined the governing body of the city's Girls' High School. She continued to champion women's higher education by creating a home-based university level teaching facility, supported by sympathetic professors from Owens College. Through her unstinting efforts this became incorporated into Owens College in 1883.[1]
Scott also served on the Withington Girls School governing body and was interested in the co-educational school Lady Barn House School and took a lead role in education in the City; her eloquent elocution at public events to raise support for education for women and girls, was remarked upon on in her obituary.[1]
Her final speech in 1900 was in the Free Trade Hall to the assembled Manchester High School for Girls community.
Publishing anonymously, Scott translated classical Latin and French texts, including two novels in Balzac’s Human Comedy novel cycle,[7] as well as a guide to pictures in the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887. With her husband who was the editor, she contributed critical items to the Manchester Guardian[1] supporting women's right to vote as a suffragist.[8]
Scott's influence and contribution to the city of Manchester was recognised in her husband's obituary.[9]
References
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]External links
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/should-we-be-worried-women-outnumber-men-campus
- https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university-gender-gap-at-record-high-as-30000-more-women-accepted
Vorlage:Women's suffrage in Scotland
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- ↑ a b c d e f The death of Mrs C. P. Scott – archive, 29 November 1905. In: the Guardian. 29. November 2016, abgerufen am 8. Juni 2018 (englisch).
- ↑ Barbara Stephen: Girton College 1869–1932. Cambridge University Press, S. 155.
- ↑ Elizabeth L. Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, Rose Pipes: Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. S. 212.
- ↑ Mary Stott: sidelines: Graduated contributions. In: The Guardian. 30 June 1972. Jahrgang, Juni 2018, S. 11.
- ↑ M. C. Bradbrook: 'That Infidel Place': A Short History of Girton College 1869–1969. Chatto & Windus Ltd., London 1969, S. 47.
- ↑ Elizabeth Crawford: The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. S. 453.
- ↑ Olive Classe: Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. 2000, ISBN 978-0-203-82550-1, doi:10.4324/9780203825501.
- ↑ , Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian.: The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1, S. 212 (worldcat.org).
- ↑ S.K. Ratcliffe: C. P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian. In: The Contemporary Review. London Vol.146 (July 1, 1934). Jahrgang, Juni 2018, S. 144.