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Rammohun Roy some of the inspiration she had 

 received from him she would be content. 



One more institution, however, was to owe its 

 origin to her before she went away. The Certified 

 Industrial School which had been established had 

 been intended for boys only. Miss Carpenter never 

 forgot the girls ; so before she quitted Bristol for 

 India she invited a number of ladies to her house 

 and laid before them a plan for a Girls' Industrial 

 School. " I said to them," she afterwards related 

 " I said to them, ' This must be done, and you are 

 to do it' " And they did it. A committee was 

 formed ; a house was taken ; the school was opened, 

 and was successfully carried on. 



Miss Carpenter visited India four times. Her 

 stay on each occasion did not exceed a few months, 

 but she was very busy during the time. She had a 

 very clear idea of what she wanted to do ; she wanted 

 to inquire into the condition of female education, and 

 see whether something could not be done to raise it ; 

 to look into and report upon the management of 

 reformatory schools, and to investigate the state of 

 the prisons. In short, the subjects which had inter- 

 ested her in England were the subjects which attracted 

 her in India. 



Her experiment was made under very favourable 

 circumstances. The Home Government helped her, 

 and made arrangements for her to inspect various 

 public institutions, and to obtain information from 



