Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: Volume 1
With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune

Hannah More's influential two-volume work of 1799 outlines her conservative stance on women's education and conduct.

Hannah More (Author)

9781108018906, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

328 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

A unique and influential public figure in her time, Hannah More (1745–1833) was a prolific writer. This two-volume study, published in 1799, is her definitive work on women's education, which went through thirteen editions by 1826 and sold over 19,000 copies. The work outlines More's belief that women's education and conduct determined the moral state of a nation, reflecting her acceptance of eighteenth-century views on the status and education of women. In Volume 1, a heavy emphasis is placed on the need for women to observe propriety, and More argues that women should seek to acquire knowledge and discipline rather than accomplishments. The modern reader will find More's conservative stance on women's rights a fascinating contrast to more liberal works of the age, including Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=moreha

Introduction
1. Address to women of rank and fortune, on the effects of their influence on society
2. On the education of women
3. External improvements
4. Comparison of the mode of female education in the last ages with the present
5. On the religious employment of time
6. Filial obedience not the character of the age
7. On female study, and initiation into knowledge
8. On the religious and moral use of history and geography
9. On the use of definitions, and the moral benefits of accuracy in language
10. On religion
11. On the manner of instructing young persons in religion
12. Hints suggested for furnishing young persons with a scheme of prayer.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]