Mental improvement
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Bibliographic Information
Mental improvement
（Early English women writers 1660-1800, no. 4）
Colleagues Press , Distributed outside North America by Boydell and Brewer, c1995
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Mental improvement, or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art : conveyed in a series of instructive conversations
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Note
Works cited: p. xix-xxi
Originally published in 1794-1797
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Description
Written in the 1790s, Mental Improvementis a family narrative dealing with issues such as domestic ideology, female agency, and science. Strongly influenced by the values of the Enlightenment, its message is that knowledgeis the path to liberation, and that such knowledge can be found in many places, including maternal teaching, family patterns, and conversation; it also advances the idea of transformation through information, especially that of natural history.
ANN B. SHTEIRis at York University, Canada.
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