Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates Volume 44

by Frances Teague

This edition offers texts from Bathsua Makin and Mary More, and Robert Whitehall's response to More's argument. Makin describes the appropriate education for London merchants' daughters, arguing that girls should be educated and should aspire to follow learned women in history, and that educated women improve their families and themselves. More argues that women have the right to an education, and that such an education shows that the inequality of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866985468
• ISBN13: 9780866985468
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 201 Pages