Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young: Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750-1850 (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

by Mary Hilton (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $170.70

  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. This book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists.