The Governess: Or, The Little Female Academy - Couverture souple

Fielding, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108064787 ISBN 13 : 9781108064781

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

A reissue of the 1765 printing of Sarah Fielding's novel, the first for children, about nine girls and their governess.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1749 and reissued here in its 1765 printing, this novel by Sarah Fielding (1710–68) attempts to encourage young women to lives of virtue and benevolence through the story of nine girls living with their governess, Mrs Teachum, in a school in the north of England. The girls, aged between eleven and fourteen years old, learn the feminine graces and manners from various lessons and field trips organised by their teacher, as well as through the tales they tell each other. Skilled in conveying moral messages in this educational context, Fielding, whose brother was the novelist Henry Fielding, had also published anonymously The Adventures of David Simple (1744). The present work is particularly notable for being the first novel written in English expressly for children. An important text in eighteenth-century literature, it will appeal especially to readers interested in the history of women's education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108064787
• ISBN 13: 9781108064781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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