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Emily Davies led the Victorian campaign to open education to girls on the same basis as boys, and founded Girton College in Cambridge.

  • A photo of a middle-class Victorian girl helping a small boy who has dropped his grocery basket in the street.

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    Imagine

    Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that education must not rob women of their imagination.

    Emily Davies

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