Florence Peters and a father's education petitions

Historian Catherine Cymone Fourshey follows Lenrie Peters's efforts to secure his daughter Florence's education, sponsorship and passage between Britain and Bathurst in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The published abstract frames the episode as a father's family ambition set against a colonial administration's narrow expectations for women's education. ^{[fourshey-peters]}

Florence returned to Bathurst in early 1953 after six years of study in England, with her father paying for her journey. The scholar argues that a colony claiming to pursue development invested little in education while relying on the skill of women such as Florence. This one family's records offer a window on that structural contradiction. ^{[fourshey-peters]}