Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education - With a View of Principles Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank

Klappentext Hannah More's influential two-volume work of 1799 outlines her conservative stance on women's education and conduct. Zusammenfassung Hannah More (1745–1833) was highly influential in her lifetime, publishing a wide variety of successful works, including social and moral tracts and religious fiction. This two-volume work (1799) is her definitive study on women's education, outlining her belief that women's conduct determined the moral state of a nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 13. The practical use of female knowledge, with a sketch of the female character, and a comparative view of the sexes; 14. Conversation; 15. On the danger of an ill-directed sensibility; 16. On dissipation, and the modern habits of fashionable life; 17. On public amusements; 18. A worldly spirit incompatible with the spirit of Christianity; 19. On the leading doctrine of Christianity; 20. On the duty and efficacy of prayer.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah More, More Hannah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9781108018913
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01891-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Education; Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; EDUCATION / General, Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory