Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women''s educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton''s book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists including Sarah Fielding, Hester Mulso Chapone, Cath...