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Educating the child in Enlightenment Britain : beliefs, cultures, practices / edited by Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Education.
- Education--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Education--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Enlightenment--Great Britain.
- Enlightenment.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 243 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Mary Hilton & Jill Shefrin
- O miserable and most ruinous measure : the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800 / Sophia Woodley
- Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : the educational agenda of Hannah More / Anne Stott
- Marketing religious identity : female educators, Methodist texts, and eighteenth-century childhood / Mary Clare Martin
- Learning and virtue : English grammar and the eighteenth-century girls' school / Carol Percy
- Familiar conversation : the role of the "familiar format" in education in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England / Michèle Cohen
- Hosting the grand tour : civility, enlightenment, and culture, c. 1740-1790 / Jennifer Mori
- Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity : English Jesuit education and culture in the long eighteenth century, 1688-1832 / Maurice Whitehead
- Colonising the mind : the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c. 1750-1850 / Deirdre Raftery
- Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c. : booksellers and the infant school market / Jill Shefrin
- Delightful instruction? : assessing children's use of educational books in the long eighteenth century / M.O. Grenby.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754664604
- 0754664600
- OCLC:
- 233697405
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