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Alexander John Scott : Suggestions on Female Education

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'The books came yesterday evening just as I was wishing for them very much [...] I took up [...] Scott's "Suggestions on Female Education"; that [...] I read, and with unalloyed pleasure. It is very good; justly thought, and clearly and felicitously expressed. The girls of this generation have great advantages; it seems to me that they receive much encouragement in the acquisition of knowledge and the cultivation of their minds; in these days women may be well read, without being universally stigmatised as "Blues" and "Pedants."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

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