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Emily Elisabeth Constance Jones

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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"EMILY ELISABETH CONSTANCE JONES (1848-), English educator, was born at Langstone Court, Hereford., in 1848. She was educated partly privately and partly at a school in Cheltenham, and afterwards went to Girton College, Cambridge, where she took a first-class in the moral sciences tripos in 1880. In 1884 she was appointed a resident lecturer at Girton, and in 1896 became vice-mistress of the college. She became mistress of Girton in 1903, and in 1916 retired.

Miss Jones published various works on moral science, including Elements of Logic as a Science of Propositions (1890); Primer of Logic (1905); Primer of Ethics (1909); and A New Law of Thought and its Logical Bearings (1911). She also, with Miss E. Hamilton, translated Lotze's Mikrokosmus (1885), and has edited (1902) Henry Sidgwick's Lectures on T. H. Green, Herbert Spencer and J. Martineau.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Emily Elisabeth Constance Jones'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​e/emily-elisabeth-constance-jones.html. 1910.
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