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Education of girls in the 19th century

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We strive to describe the education of girls (the institutions including home tutors) and emerging associations of women, the lectures intended for them. We mention schools for girls

1. created by associations - Karolina Světlá's Women's Industrial Association and its industrial school (1870), the Associtation of st. Ludmila, the Household Association and the cooking schools for girls without money, the first secondary grammar school for girls Minerva (1890, intended by E. Krásnohorská already from 70ties);

2. public (municipal) schools - the Higher School for Girls (1861), the Insitute for Teachers' Education (1866);

3. church and

4. private - Budeč school (Amerling). We mention Zdeňka Havlíčková and the paintress Zdeňka Braunerová among the personalities of girl graduates. The history of mathematics will be represented by the astronomical talks of František Josef Studnička in the American Ladies' Club (by J. and V. Náprstek). Regarding Minerva we mention Studnička's letters with Krásnohorská and her disputes with Karolína Světlá.We mention the unsuccessfull strives for the first secondary grammar school for girls from 1868 by the founder of the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists G. Blažek.