Female education in the age of enlightenment
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Female education in the age of enlightenment
Pickering & Chatto, 1996
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text.
Table of Contents
- Volume 1 James Fordyce, Sermons for Young Women (1766)
- John Gregory, A Father's Legacy to His Daughters (1774) Volume 2 Hester Chapone, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773)
- Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) Volume 3 Catherine Macaulay, Letters on Education (1790) Volume 4 Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady, Vol. I (1811) Volume 5 Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady, Vol.II (1811) Volume 6 Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady, Vol.III (1811)
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