Elizabeth Adelaide Manning was a British writer and editors
Background
Elizabeth Adelaide Manning was born in 1828. Her mother was Clarissa (born Palmer) and her father was the lawyer James Manning who helped the Law Amendment Society decide to support changing the British law relating to married women"s property.
Career
She championed kindergartens. She was one of the first students to attend Girton College. Manning was active for the National Indian Association which championed education and the needs of women in India.
Bishop was advising the London School board on the use of Kindergarten methods and Manning presented a paper on the same subject to the Social Science Association.
The following year the Froebel Society became national. She was one of the first students to attend Girton College after she sat the entrance examination
Her stepmother was briefly the first mistress. Her stepmother died the following month and Manning increasingly became the society"s main proponent.
She edited the magazine originally titled The Journal of the National Indian Association.
This journal in time became The Indian Magazine in 1886 and in 1891 The Indian Magazine and Review under Manning"s leadership. In 1882 the National Investigation Agency launched an initiative titled Medical Women for India which was designed to train women doctors so that they could work in part on caring for women in India. The National Investigation Agency also took an interest in students from India who were studying in Britain.
Manning created a book of guidance called Handbook of information relating to university and professional studies et cetera for Indian students in the United Kingdom.
Manning had an open house policy and she cared particularly for students from India. In 1888 Cornelia Sorabji contacted the National Indian Association from India for assistance in completing university education.
This letter was championed by Mary Hobhouse and Manning contributed funds together with Florence Nightingale, Sir William Wedderburn and others Sorabji arrived in England in 1889 and she stayed with Manning.
Sorabji was the first woman to complete a law degree at Oxford and she kept contact with the National Investigation Agency during her later career.
Manning died in London in 1905. Manning left bequests to the National Investigation Agency, The Froebel Society, the Royal Free Hospital and Charles Voysey"s unorthodox church in Piccadilly. She left her medal and two thousand pounds (£2,000) to Girton College.