Pursuing the muses : female education and nonconformist culture, 1700-1900

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    • Reeves, Marjorie

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Pursuing the muses : female education and nonconformist culture, 1700-1900

Marjorie Reeves

Leicester University Press, 1997

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This volume focuses on a group of inter-related middle-class families who were unusually articulate, leaving two collections of letters, diaries, poetry, commonplace books and school books. The book is about local history as communication in literary form. The writers speak to each other across the counties and are linked in a Nonconformist family network. The first part of the text looks at how 18th-century young women with literary aspirations escaped from the typical girls' school to gain their real education from male friends, advocates of the "blue stockings". The middle part focuses upon a literary circle (mostly women) who combined spiritual piety with contemporary classical/pastoral romance, writing hymns but also exchanging playful verse with friends who were Baptist divines. The final part, covering the 19th century, follows this literary tradition through four generations in one village.

目次

  • Pen names
  • maps
  • family tree
  • a network of nonconformist families
  • a vivid letter-writer and a lively child
  • 18th-century young women - how were they educated?
  • the cause of the "Blue Stockings"
  • a literary circle of friends and their writings
  • young friends in their 20s
  • four generations of education and culture in the village of Bratton.

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