1860. August 18th.—Death of Madame Barop (Emilie Froebel).
1861. The Baroness Bertha Von Marenholtz-Buelow
promotes the foundation
of the Journal
The Education of the Future, and Dr. Carl
Schmidt
of Coethen undertakes the editorship.
1874. April.—Madame Michaelis comes
to England to assist the
Kindergarten
movement. Is appointed in the summer to lecture
to
the school-board
teachers at Croydon. Founds Croydon
Kindergarten,
January 1875, with Mrs. Berry.
Nov.—The London School Board appoint Miss Bishop (pupil of Miss Praetorius) as their first lecturer on the Kindergarten System to their teachers of infant schools. About the same time Miss Heerwart (who had left Manchester to found a Kindergarten of her own in Dublin in 1866) is appointed principal of the Kindergarten Training College established at Stockwell by the British and Foreign School Society.
The Froebel Society of London is formed by Miss Doreck, Miss Heerwart, Miss Bishop, Madame Michaelis, Professor Joseph Payne, and Miss Manning; Miss Doreck being the first president. Very soon these were joined by Miss Shireff (president since 1877, when Miss Doreck died), by her sister Mrs. William Grey, by Miss Mary Gurney, and by many other well-known friends of educational progress.
1879. Autumn.—The London Kindergarten
Training College is founded by
the Froebel
Society, but as a separate association (dissolved
1883).
1880. May.—The Croydon Kindergarten
Company (Limited), is founded to
extend Madame
Michaelis’s work in teaching and training, Madame
Michaelis
becoming the Company’s head mistress.
1882. Langethal died. Celebration of the
Centenary of Froebel’s birth
by a concert,
given at Willis’s Rooms, London, on the part
of the
Froebel
Society, to raise funds for a memorial Kindergarten
at
Blankenburg,
by a fund raised at Croydon for the same purpose,
and by a
soiree and conversazione, presided over by Mr.
W.
Woodall,
M.P., given at the Stockwell Training College by the
British
and Foreign School Society.
1883. January.—The Bedford Kindergarten
Company (Limited) founded,
mainly upon
the lines of the Croydon Company. First (and present)
head mistress,
Miss Sim.
Miss Heerwart
goes to Blankenburg to found the memorial
Kindergarten
there.
1884. International Exhibition, South Kensington
(Health and
Education).
A Conference on Education was held in June, the
section
devoted to Infant Education being largely taken up
with
an important
discussion of Froebel’s principles, in which
speakers
of other nations joined the English authorities in
debate.