Alice ZIMMERN

Background

Zimmern was born in Nottingham, the youngest of the three daughters of the lace merchant Hermann Theodore Zimmern, a German immigrant, and his wife Antonia Marie Therese Regina Zimmern.

Education

She was educated at a private school and at Bedford College, London, before entering Girton College, Cambridge, in 1881 to read classics, which she subsequently taught from 1888 to 1894 at English girls" schools, including Tunbridge Wells High School (1888-1891).

Career

Went to the United States with a Gilchrist travelling scholarship to report on schools and colleges, 1893. Has studied educational methods also in England, France, and Germany.

Achievements

• In 1893, she and four others were awarded Gilchrist scholarships to study the United States education system. Other works by Zimmern include Demand and Achievement.

Works

• book

  • Methods of Education in the United States - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Methods of Education in the United States

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Old Tales from Rome, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

    (Anchises in the kingdom of the dead ...... Ascanius kills...)

  • Old Tales From Greece
  • Old Tales from Greece
  • Old Tales From Rome

Membership

Club: Ladies’University.

Interests

• Walking, pets, and patience.