Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life

Wollstonecraft, Mary · 1797

LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N^o 72, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD. In the following pages I have endeavoured to point out some important things with respect to female education. It is true, many treatises have been already written; yet it occurred to me, that much still remained to be said. I shall not swell these sheets by writing apologies for my attempt. I am afraid, indeed, the reflections will, by some, be thought too grave; but I could not make them less so without writing affectedly; yet, though they may be insipid to the gay, others may not think them so; and if they should prove useful to one fellow-creature, and beguile any hours, which so…

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