Modern Literature in the Curricular of Women's Educational Institutions of the 1880s-1900s

In this work "Modern literature in the curriculums of women's educational institutions of 1880-1900", the analysis of women's education of the late XIX – early XX centuries is carried out from the point of view of the study of literature and the formation of the school and/or institute canon, as well as its desired impact on the pupils. The aim of the work was to identify the most frequent and peripheral texts and their authors in the language and literature programs of women's educational institutions of this period. The accompanying goals were also to suggest what historical conditions or features of the text influenced its presence in the list of recommended literature for study. The paper shows that the basis of the literary school and/or institute canon was the writers of the "golden age": A. S. Pushkin, N. V. Gogol, I. A. Krylov, M. Yu.Lermontov and others. Foreign literature, as the materials show, was studied relatively less than domestic literature and was part of extracurricular reading, which was influenced by the reforms of the Ministry of Public Education and public perception.