Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young: Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750-1850

by Mary Hilton

Book Overview

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists including Sarah Fielding, Hester Mulso Chapone, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Sarah...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113825956X
• ISBN13: 9781138259560
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"