鸦片战争后,西方传教士随着条约体系的建立来到中国,纷纷建校,进行传教。宁波作为最早开辟的五口通商城市之一,在1844年率先建立一所女校,史称为“宁波女塾”。有趣的是,这个中国第一所女校的创办者并非中国人,而是一位外国的基督教女传教士。她就是第一个来华的英国女传教士、被西方历史称为“宁波女巫”的爱尔德赛女士。向往到中国去爱尔德赛(Mary Ann Aldersey, After the Opium War, Western missionaries came to China with the establishment of a treaty system and established schools and missions. As one of the first five ports of commerce opened up in Ningbo, Ningbo first set up a female school in 1844 and was known as “Ningbo Girls’ Private School”. Interestingly, the founder of China’s first female school was not a Chinese, but a foreign Christian missionary. She is the first British missionary to China and is known as Ms. Erdise in the history of the West by Ningbo Witch. Longing to China to go to Erdise (Mary Ann Aldersey,