256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars.... Read more
Contents: Charles Knight. A highly useful man; Professional apprenticeship: Windsor, 1812-23; Knight and the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge: a special relationship (1827-46); Knight the populariser - education and literacy; Knight the populariser - political economy; Knight - the pioneer publisher; Retrospect and conclusion; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.
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Valerie Gray
