Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text.
Copy Texts, Introduction by Janet Todd, VOLUME I, James Fordyce Sermons
for Young Women (1766) John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters
(1774), Volume 2, Hester Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind
(1773), Thomas Gisborne An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797),
Volume 3 Catherine Macaulay Letters on Education (1790), VOLUME 4 Jane West
Letters to a Young Lady, Vol. I (1811), VOLUME 5 Jane West Letters to a Young
Lady, Vol. II (1811), VOLUME 6 Jane West Letters to a Young Lady, Vol. III
(1811)