Letters to a Young Lady, 1811 (Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment, V. 4-6)

Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text.