Oh, those crazy Victorians

Posted January 16, 2010

Today I’ve been writing about the Society for Promoting the Education of Women. Yes, SPEW. It’s a very interesting and worthy organization that broke new ground in training women for many careers (including book-keeping and shorthand which had previously not been regularly taught to women) as well as operating as an employment registry for women seeking work at a time where that was pretty radical.

They changed the name in 1926 to the Society for Promoting the Training of Women but I prefer the original version. Don’t you?

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3 Comments so far

  1. Ink on January 17th, 2010

    I also prefer SPEW! It’s very In Your Face… :D

  2. Bavardess on January 17th, 2010

    It would be good to go back, but I think Harry Potter has already registered SPEW as the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare.

  3. Cordelia V on January 17th, 2010

    This is almost too good to be true. I am fairly sure I know what you’re writing about this for, and am filled with glee and anticipation.