Mental Improvement |
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| Author:
| Wakefield, Priscilla |
| Editor:
| Shteir, Ann B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-937191-51-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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In the final decades of the eighteenth century, a small group of women were particularly prominent as writers of educational books for women. Priscilla Wakefield was one of them, active 1770-1832 in England, Britain, Europe. Mental Improvement presents Wakefield's 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.
In the final decades of the eighteenth century, a small group of women were particularly prominent as writers of educational books for women. Priscilla Wakefield was one of them, active 1770-1832 in England, Britain, Europe. Mental Improvement presents Wakefield's 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.