Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Proper Conduct and Education of Young Ladies

Sites to visit:

Women's education issues during the romantic period; schooling, accomplishments, and institutions

Excerpts from conduct manuals for women in the Romantic period; advice on courting, love, marriage

The feminist reaction to teaching methods and the impact of doctrines imparted by conduct manuals on young women

Also visit my bibliography on women's conduct manuals from the Romantic Period.

Bibliography and Sources Cited

  • Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: a political history of the novel. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
  • Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Middlesex: Signet, 1996.
  • Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women's Education. London: Lutterworth, 1975.
  • "Education." Women's Studies Encyclopedia. 1990 ed.
  • Faunce, Patricia Spencer. Women and Ambition: A Bibliography. London: The Scarecrow, 1980.
  • Jones, Vivien, ed. Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. London: Routledge, 1990.
  • Looser, Devoney, ed. Jane Austen and Discourses on Feminism. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.
  • Pascoe, Judith. "Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith." Revisioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Wilson, Carol Shiner and Joel Haefner, eds. U of Penna P, 1994.
  • Purvis, Jane. A History of Women's Education in England. Philadelphia: Open UP, 1991.
  • Richardson, Alan. Literature, Education, and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
  • Mellor, Anne K. and Richard E. Matlak, eds. British Literature: 1780-1830. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College P, 1996.

    • This page was created by Jennifer L. McLain for English 441 at Miami University, Oxford, OH, during the Fall, 1997 semester.