| Contents |
Introduction / Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin -- 'Oh miserable and most ruinous measure' : the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800 / Sophia Woodley -- Evangelicalism and Enlightenment : the educational agenda of Hannah More / Anne Stott -- Marketing religious identity : female educators, Methodist culture, and eighteenth-century childhood / Mary Clare Martin -- Learning and virtue : English grammar and the eighteenth-century girls' school / Carol Percy -- 'Familiar conversation' : the role of the "familiar format" in education in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England / Michèle Cohen -- Hosting the grand tour : civility, enlightenment, and culture, c. 1740-1790 / Jennifer Mori -- Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity : English Jesuit education and culture in the long eighteenth century, 1688-1832 / Maurice Whitehead -- Colonizing the mind : the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c. 1750-1850 / Deirdre Raftery -- 'Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c.' : booksellers and the infant school market / Jill Shefrin -- Delightful instruction? : assessing children's use of educational books in the long eighteenth century / M.O. Grenby. |
