Thoughts on the Education of Daughters : With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life
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The nursery -- Moral discipline -- Exterior accomplishments -- Artificial manners -- Dress -- The fine arts -- Reading -- Boarding-schools -- The temper -- Unfortunate situation of females, fashionably educated, and left without a fortune -- Love -- Matrimony -- Desultory thoughts -- The benefits which arise from disappointments -- On the treatment of servants -- The observance of Sunday -- On the misfortune of fluctuating principles -- Benevolence -- Card-playing -- The theatre -- Public places.
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"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a conduct book published in 1787. Wollstonecraft's first published work offers practical guidance on educating women from infancy through marriage for Britain's emerging middle class. She encourages mothers to teach daughters analytical thinking, self-discipline, and marketable skills while criticizing fashionable society's superficial education. Though focused on preparing useful wives and mothers, certain passages anticipate her later feminist arguments. The book blends moral instruction with child-rearing advice, reflecting eighteenth-century debates about women's roles in society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Women -- Social and moral questions Young women Women -- Conduct of life