1. Elizabeth Adelaide Manning was a British writer and editor.
12 Facts About Adelaide Manning
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Adelaide Manning was one of the first students to attend Girton College.
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Adelaide Manning was a founder member of the London Froebel Society in 1874 with her cousin Caroline Bishop.
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Bishop was advising the London School Board on the use of Kindergarten methods and Adelaide Manning presented a paper on the same subject to the Social Science Association.
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Adelaide Manning was one of the first students to attend Girton College after she sat the entrance exam.
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Adelaide Manning's stepmother died the following month and Manning increasingly became the society's main proponent.
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Adelaide Manning edited its magazine, whose title shifted from The Journal of the National Indian Association to The Indian Magazine in 1886, and then in 1891 The Indian Magazine and Review, still under Manning's leadership.
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Adelaide Manning created a book of guidance called Handbook of information relating to university and professional studies etc.
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Adelaide Manning had an open house policy and she cared particularly for students from India.
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In July 1904, Adelaide Manning was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal, first class, by the King for services to the British Raj.
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Adelaide Manning left bequests to the NIA, The Froebel Society, the Royal Free Hospital and Charles Voysey's unorthodox church in Piccadilly.
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Adelaide Manning left her medal and two thousand pounds to Girton College.