au.

1854. Madame Luise Froebel goes in the spring to Dresden, to assist Dr.
Marquart in his Kindergarten and training establishment for
Kindergarten teachers. Madame Marquart had been a pupil of
Froebel. Keilhau ceases to be a training school for Kindergarten
teachers.

In the autumn Madame Luise Froebel accepts the directorship of
the Public Free Kindergarten in Hamburg, and trains students
there. (She is still actively employed at Hamburg in the cause of
the Kindergarten; 1886.)

First introduction of the Kindergarten system into England by
Miss Praetorius, who founds a Kindergarten at Fitzroy Square.
Madame von Marenholtz Buelow, who was the support of Froebel's
latest years, whose influence with the Grand Duke of Weimar
procured him Marienthal, and whose whole leisure and power was
devoted to his service, and to the interpretation of his ideas,
comes to England to lecture and write in support of the cause of
the Kindergarten. Publishes a pamphlet on "Infant Gardens," in
English.

Madame Ronge introduces the Kindergarten system at Manchester;
and shortly afterwards the Manchester Kindergarten Association is
founded.

1859. Miss Eleonore Heerwart (pupil of Middendorff and Madame Luise
Froebel), and the Baroness Adele von Portugall (pupil of Madame
von Marenholtz-Buelow and of Madame Schrader, the great niece of
Froebel), come to England, and are both engaged at Manchester as
Kindergarten teachers, but not in the same establishment.

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 appo