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'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

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Amy Erickson, Cambridge
Thursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00
History Faculty Room 11.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Amy Erickson .

Much has been written on the marked increase in literacy and publication of the later seventeenth century, especially among women, and on the girls’ schools and educational tracts of the late eighteenth century. This paper uses a sampler – that quintessential emblem of female education – to explore the range of education for girls in the capital in the missing first half of the eighteenth century.

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'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

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