Mary Hilton: 3 books
Practical Visionaries
Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the...
Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young
Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings...
by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists...