Elise Gey | 1887
“Junge Mädchen” (young girls) “find motherly accommodation for further education”. In 1887, Frau Elise Gey, at Rietschelstraße 5 in Dresden, offered board and lessons in languages, sciences, music and more for a fee of 750 marks, with the best references.
This was a “Töchterpensionat”, a boarding house where middle-class daughters rounded off their education after school.
The ad reveals the limits of the time: a girl's education was meant to prepare her for marriage and home rather than a profession. German universities only began admitting women around 1900.
Behind the promise of motherly care was a world about to change.
Text in the ad
Junge Mädchen
finden zur weiteren Ausbildung mütterliche Aufnahme u. Unterricht in Sprachen, Wissenschaften, Musik etc. gegen einen Pensionspreis von 750 Mark bei
Frau Elise Gey
Dresden
Rietschelstr. 5, II.
Beste Empfehlungen.
Translation:
Young girls
find motherly accommodation for further education, and lessons in languages, sciences, music etc., for a boarding fee of 750 marks, with
Mrs Elise Gey
Dresden
Rietschelstrasse 5, 2nd floor.
Best references.
- Brand
- Elise Gey
- Year
- 1887
- Decade
- 19th century
- Country
- Germany
- Medium
- Newspaper
- Original publication
- Zeitungs-Umschläge für Sächs. Provinzial- u. Grenzstädte, Dresden, 1887
