"The book is most comprehensive, leaving nothing unnoticed. It gives all that is needed to make a perfect needlewoman of a mere tyro . . . The most complicated stitches could be learned by one who had never before held a needle."

Miss Smith’s Cutting Out for Student Teachers was also used, and Lady Carlisle extolled the virtues of needlework in the introduction.

Though I thus believe in women entering into their full and rightful inheritance in the realms of learning, politics, administration and professional life, I cling whole-heartedly to the conviction that they must not abandon in their new quest any of the delicate, lovely home duties which have been the pride and the joy of our women-folk for centuries past, both in the stately homes and in the cottage homes of England.

Class Textbook

Times were changing - and were about to change