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Mary Vivian Hughes

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Life
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Published works
References
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{{more citations needed|date=March 2011}}Mary Vivian Hughes (2 October 1866 – May 1956), usually known as Molly Hughes and published under M. V. Hughes, was a British educator and author.^[1]

Life

The daughter of a London stockbroker, she was born Mary Thomas and passed most of her childhood in Canonbury, under the watchful eyes of four older brothers. Her father, a modestly successful stockbroker, was discovered dead on a train line in 1879. His death remains a mystery.

She attended the North London Collegiate School and a Cambridge teachers' training college, and was later awarded her BA in London.^[2]

As head of the training department at Bedford College from 1892 until 1897, she played an important role in expanding and rationalising the teacher-training curriculum.

Molly Thomas married a barrister, Arthur Hughes (1857–1918), from Garneddwen, in 1897, after an engagement of nearly ten years. They had one daughter and three sons. After her husband's death she returned to work as an educational inspector. Her first book, About England, was published in 1927.

She died in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1956.

Reputation

Hughes is best known for a series of four memoirs, A London Child of the 1870s, A London Girl of the 1880s, A London Home in the 1890s, and A London Family Between the Wars. Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed". Her books are a valuable source on women's education and women's work in the late Victorian period; in particular, A London Girl of the 1880s provides an unparalleled portrait of life in a Victorian women's college.

Published works

The King of Kings (1903)
[With M.M. Penstone] The Story of Christ's First Missioners: Biographical Lessons on the Acts of the Apostles Intended for Use with Scholars Between the Ages of Eleven and Fourteen nd (1910), National Society's Depository.^[3]
[With Walter Ripman] A Rapid Latin Course (1923)
[With Walter Ripman] A Latin Reader (1925)
About England (1927)
America's England (1930)
London at Home (1931)
City Saints (1932)
A London Child of the 1870s (1934) (Republished in 2005 by Persephone Books)
Vivians (1935)
A London Girl of the 1880s (1936)
A London Home in the 1890s (1937)
Scripture Teaching Today (1939)
A London Family Between the Wars (1940)
From Baptism to Holy Communion: Lessons on the Church Catechism (1951)

References

1. ^'Miss M. Hughes: Pioneer women teacher', The Times, 5 June 1956
2. ^{{cite web|title=Molly Hughes|url=http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/index.asp?id=39|work=Authors|publisher=Persephone Books|accessdate=30 March 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719183242/http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/index.asp?id=39|archivedate=19 July 2011|df=}}
3. ^Journal of Education, v.33 (1911) p.733.

External links

History of Hughes Hall, Cambridge
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview28 Adam Gopnick, 'All About Molly', Guardian 10 November 2005]
A London Child of the 1870s at Persephone Books

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