Edith Mary Marvin, born Edith Mary Deverell was a British inspector of schools.
12 Facts About Edith Marvin
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Edith Marvin's father was a farmer and he sold coal.
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Edith Marvin was educated at home until she attended a private school in Weston-super-Mare.
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Edith Marvin's 1900 publication Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century was created using the unpaid assistance of Melvin when she was a researcher at the London School of Economics from 1896 to 1898.
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Edith Marvin then returned to her alma mater to still work as a researcher.
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Edith Marvin was looking at girls schools and infant schools and she was unimpressed by the conditions she found firstly in Liverpool and then later in London.
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Edith Marvin ceased to be inspector in 1904, but she carried through her ideas within the National Union of Women Workers.
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Edith Marvin argued that teachers needed to trained in physiology.
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Edith Marvin argued that the health of children could her improved by appointing more female school inspectors and female school managers.
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Edith Marvin belonged to the committee which presented the Women Graduate Suffrage Petition to the Liberal Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman in May 1906.
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Edith Marvin married Francis Sydney Marvin at Tetsworth parish church on 25 June 1904.
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Edith Marvin was a leading member of the English Positivists.