Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
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)

9781108018913, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

352 pages
21.6 x 2 x 14 cm, 0.45 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 2 More argues that, with proper education, women - viewed by her as naturally more religious than men - could regenerate Christianity. She also discusses conversation, fashionable life and public amusements. 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

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]