1st Edition
Home Education in Historical Perspective Domestic pedagogies in England and Wales, 1750-1900
Introduction - Home education 1750–1900: domestic pedagogies in England and Wales in historical perspective Christina de Bellaigue
1. The home education of girls in the eighteenth-century novel: ‘the pernicious effects of an improper education’ Katie Halsey
2. The pedagogy of conversation in the home: ‘familiar conversation’ as a pedagogical tool in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England Michèle Cohen
3. Children’s literature, the home, and the debate on public versus private education, c.1760–1845 M. O. Grenby
4. Education in the working-class home: modes of learning as revealed by nineteenth-century criminal records Rosalind Crone
5. Charlotte Mason, home education and the Parents’ National Educational Union in the late nineteenth century Christina de Bellaigue
6. Self-education, class and gender in Edwardian Britain: women in lower middle class families
Gillian Sutherland
7. Home education: then and now Richard Davies
Biography
Christina de Bellaigue is Associate Professor in Modern History at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Educating women: schooling and identity in England and France, 1800-1867 (2007) and has published articles on the history of female education, comparative education, women and professionalization, and the history of reading. She is currently working on a comparative study of social mobility in nineteenth-century Britain and France, and on the history of the PNEU in the British Empire.
