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A GARDEN OF GIRLS
SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS DAUGHTERMARGARET
OBSERVING FROM HIS PRISON WINDOW THE MONKS GOING TO EXECUTIONA.D. 1535
(From the picture by J. R. Herbert, R.A., in the National GalleryVernon Collection)
A GARDEN OF
GIRLS
Or
Famous Schoolgirls of Former Days
BY
Mrs. THOMAS CONCANNON M.A.
Author of
“The Sorrow of Lycadoon” “The Land of
Long Ago” “Earth, Sea and Sky” etc.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1914
“Queen rose ofthe rosebud gardenof girls.”—Maud.
INTRODUCTION
I offer this little book (which aims at a reconstructionas faithful and accurate as carefulresearch could achieve, of the real school-life andeducation of real little girls in many ages, and inmany lands) to all those interested in the educationof the Irish Girls of To-day—the women of agreat and splendid To-morrow.
If it be true, as Cardinal Logue reminds us, that“A Nation is what its Women make its Men,” atno time was the question of the Education of herGirls of more importance to Ireland than it is now.
Is all well with that Education? By what testshall Ireland prove it?
As I write these words, there comes before mea memory of a wonderful little room, at the end ofa Dresden Gallery, where the Sistine Madonna hangsbeautiful and alone. Here, generation after generationof artists have come to gaze on that