Pursuing the muses : female education and nonconformist culture, 1700-1900
1997, First Edition. London : Leicester University Press. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards, showing faint shelfwear only. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #479864
ISBN: 0718501055
Physical description; 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A Network of Nonconformist Families -- Eighteenth-Century Young Women: How Were They Educated? -- The Cause of the "Bluestockings" -- A Literary Circle of Friends and Their Writings -- Four Generations of Education and Culture in the Village of Bratton. Subjects; Women's education Great Britain History, 18th-19th century. Dissenters, Religious England Wiltshire History Sources. England Genealogy Sources.
Price: €25.00