Fanny Hertz (1830 – 31 March 1908) was a British educationalist and feminist who worked to establish and promote various institutions for female education in Bradford.
[1][3] She married her cousin, mill owner and yarn merchant William David Hertz at St James's Church, Westminster in 1851, with whom she had three children.
[5][3] When the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science held its 1859 congress in Bradford, Hertz presented a paper called Mechanics' Institutes for working women, with special reference to the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire in which she accepted reading, writing, arithmetic, and needlework as a core for female education, she rejected that education should be designed to prepare women "for the duties of wives and mothers, of mistresses and servants".
She advocated for a broader curriculum influenced by Johann Heinrich Perstalozzi's theories of education.
[3] Hertz moved to Harley Street in London in the 1870s, where she received guests with interests in radical causes at her salon including Robert Browning and Henry James.