Mainstream WeeklyJanuary 1898 — Published in The Nineteenth Century vol. 43, no. 251, pp. 117–134
THE Russian educated woman is known to some extent in this country for the part which she took in the struggles for political freedom. Very little is known, however, about the hard, and often really heroic, struggles which Russian women have sustained simply to obtain the right to a better education; still less about the wonderful organizing powers which they have displayed in the creation and maintenance of (…)
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