JANE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

"Martin is at her most original when discussing women's politics."--Albion

• The development of mass schooling; a new role for women?; entering the public arena - women's participation in educational politics; organizing for educational management; administering the domestic curriculum; the true elements and conditions of welfare in public life - the experience of Elizabeth Surr; women and child welfare; making or unmaking the difference?

JANE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

"Martin is at her most original when discussing women's politics."--Albion

• The development of mass schooling; a new role for women?; entering the public arena - women's participation in educational politics; organizing for educational management; administering the domestic curriculum; the true elements and conditions of welfare in public life - the experience of Elizabeth Surr; women and child welfare; making or unmaking the difference?

JANE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

"Martin is at her most original when discussing women's politics."--Albion

• The development of mass schooling; a new role for women?; entering the public arena - women's participation in educational politics; organizing for educational management; administering the domestic curriculum; the true elements and conditions of welfare in public life - the experience of Elizabeth Surr; women and child welfare; making or unmaking the difference?