[1] The intention was to ensure that females would learn sewing and, over time, other domestic subjects in separate gender-based education.
[1] Women were seen as centers of moral and religious values for families and the middle and upper class ladies in the new association saw it as their role to provide it.
[2] In 1853, she published her book, The Female Teacher: Ideas Suggestive of Her Qualifications and Duties where she notes that women should be "keepers at home" and men should see to his "labor and his work until the evening".
[3] It was Hope who had organized a petition of 130 signatures of "principal ladies of Scotland" demanding improved sewing lesson for girls in Scottish schools.
[1] Upper class ladies like Hope saw it as their role to assist in these lessons and it can be seen as the start of Domestic Science being taught in schools.