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The Englishwoman’s Review 1 (January 1870), 27 notes, 'Lectures to ladies on English literature are to be given by Professor Morley, at Winchester in the autumn.' There is a good description of the experience from Henry Morley's point of view in his 1898 biography by Henry Solly.

This development was part of the general movement for the higher education of women and the extension of university teaching to excluded groups. The London Ladies' Educational Association was founded in 1868-69.

See Carol Dyhouse, No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939 (London: UCL Press, 1995) pp. 13-17 and J.F.C. Harrison, Learning and Living 1790-1960: A Study in the History of the English Adult Education Movement (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961) Chapter 6.