Thoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft
"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a conduct book published in 1787. Wollstonecraft's first published work offers practical guidance on educating women from infancy through marriage for Britain's emerging middle class. She encourages mothers to teach daughters analytical thinking, self-discipline, and marketable skills while criticizing fashionable society's superficial education. Though focused on preparing useful wives and mothers, certain passages anticipate her later feminist arguments. The book blends moral
instruction with child-rearing advice, reflecting eighteenth-century debates about women's roles in society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 |
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| LoC No. | 18011740 |
| Title |
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life |
| Original Publication | United Kingdom: J. Johnson,1787. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_the_Education_of_Daughters |
| Contents | The nursery -- Moral discipline -- Exterior accomplishments -- Artificial manners -- Dress -- The fine arts -- Reading -- Boarding-schools -- The temper -- Unfortunate situation of females, fashionably educated, and left without a fortune -- Love -- Matrimony -- Desultory thoughts -- The benefits which arise from disappointments -- On the treatment of servants -- The observance of Sunday -- On the misfortune of fluctuating principles -- Benevolence -- Card-playing -- The theatre -- Public places. |
| Credits | Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 62.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender |
| Subject | Women -- Social and moral questions |
| Subject | Young women |
| Subject | Women -- Conduct of life |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 67466 |
| Release Date | Feb 21, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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