Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters offers reflections on female conduct in the more important duties of life. The preface says that the writer seeks to identify some important matters in female education, despite the many treatises already written. The discussion of teaching argues that a teacher can cultivate the mind and discover its real powers but cannot create it.

The text recommends teaching religion by example and reading the Bible with particular respect rather than using the sacred book to teach reading. The contents list subjects including moral discipline, artificial manners, dress, reading, boarding schools, matrimony, the treatment of servants, and the observance of Sunday.

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English writer and philosopher, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and a founder of modern feminism. Mother of Mary Shelley, she led a life as bold and unconventional as her ideas.