Author: Gillian Dow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315475847
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.