Adelaide and Theodore: by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis (Chawton House Library: Women's Novels)

by Gillian Dow (Author)

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  Paperback
  2016

  $44.58

  Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's Emile . However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.