St Faith's House of Sacred Learning

I have actually worked my way through quite a bit of material since I last made an entry here, and I am now scanning in the material related to the Board of Women's Work of 1929 or so, in the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, which eventually led to the St Faith's House of Sacred Learning being set up for the training and education of women workers (Deaconesses, Sunday School teachers, and lay workers of various kinds) for the Church of England in the New Zealand Province.

St Faith's finally failed around 1943 or so, but, in the meantime the Church Army had been established soon after the commencement of St Faith's House of Sacred Learning - this may have contributed in part to the failure of the Training College for Women here in Christchurch.

It seems odd, somehow, to be reading, at the same time, books about the lives of young English women from the 1870's up 'til about 1915 or 1917, when women still were not enfranchised, etc., etc. It interests me that the same concerns around social justice at the time have not yet been fully addressed and corrected, which makes me wonder if we may need to start thinking outside the square a bit more vis a vis the very close interconnections between economic wealth and political power!