"Dacca, the capital of East Bengal is considerably advanced in female education, through the efforts of many enlightened Native Gentlemen. Here I found a small adult school unique in its character, whose husbands desire for their wives' intellectual improvement", Merry Carpenter wrote to the Governor of Bengal in 1876 about female education in Dhaka visiting the then "Female Adult School" which later wasEden Female School at Laxmibazar.