STUDIES AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, HARLEY STREET, 1848-1868.

This article focuses on the educational system and studies during 1848-1868 at the Queen's College which was situated at Harley Street in London, England. According to the Schools' Inquiry Commissioners of Great Britain, Queen's College was an admirable institution. Commissioners classed Queen's and Bedford College as the highest institutions for female education in England. But, they have not clarified whether they ranked as colleges or as schools. Established as the most progressive of the enterprises of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, Queen's College both met the immediate needs of the governesses and developed a full-scale experiment in the academic education of young women. It was a remarkable achievement for a Victorian charitable organization. In 1846, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution invited the assistance of all those who have an interest in the cultivation of the female intellect, and in the preservation of the purity of the female mind; and they are satisfied to wait the time which must come for the perfection of their full designs. The next major adjustment came in the spring of 1851. The preparatory classes had been appreciated, for it was decided to maintain a much closer relationship with the first year of the college.