Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Moulding Forms
6. Chapter 1 Important Familial Conversations: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer and Ellenor Fenn 25
7. Chapter 2 Reading Poetry for Children in the Long Eighteenth Century 49
8. Chapter 3 Women Writing Geography Texts, 1790–1830 71
9. Chapter 4 ‘What follows’: Maria Edgeworth’s Works for Older Children 96
10. Part II Acknowledging the Past
11. Chapter 5 Desire and Performative Masquerade in L.E.L’s and E.B.B.’s Classical Translations 115
12. Chapter 6 ‘Wisdom consists in the right use of knowledge’: Socrates as a Symbol of Quaker Pedagogy in Maria Hack’s Grecian Stories 139
13. Chapter 7 Bluestocking Epistolary Education: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot 166
14. Part III Responding to the Present
15. Chapter 8 Laughing to Learn: Sarah Fielding’s Life Lessons 193
16. Chapter 9 Emotional Regulation: Jane Austen, Jane West and Mary Brunton 215
17. Chapter 10 Staging Women’s Education in Two Anti-Jacobin Novels: More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Hawkins’ Rosanne: or, A Father’s Labour Lost (1814) 236
18. Part IV Shaping the Future
19. Chapter 11 Pedagogy as (Cosmo)Politics: Cultivating Benevolence in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Educational Works 261
20. Chapter 12 ‘The enemy of imagination’? Re-imagining Sarah Trimmer and Her Fabulous Histories 285
21. Chapter 13 A Literary Life: A Transatlantic Tale of Vivacity, Rousing Curiosity and Engaging Affection 311
22. Index 330