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Mental improvement / Priscilla Wakefield ; edited with introduction and notes by Ann B. Shteir.
LIBRA QH48 .W24 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.
- Series:
- Early English women writers, 1660-1800 ; no. 4.
- Early English women writers, 1660-1800 ; no. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Juvenile literature.
- Natural history.
- Science--Juvenile literature.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 171 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Colleagues Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Lessons for young people on a wide variety of topics, from whaling and seashells to painting on glass and the origin of navigation, are presented in fictional conversations of an eighteenth-century family.
- Notes:
- Based on the original two-volume version from 1794, originally titled: Mental improvement : or, the beauties and wonders of nature and art, conveyed in a series of instructive conversations.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xxi).
- ISBN:
- 0937191515
- OCLC:
- 33098295
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