The Lady's Museum Project

The Lady's Museum Project

An In-Progress Critical Edition and Learning Community

  • ABOUT THE MAGAZINE
    • BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE
    • LENNOX AND “FEMALE EDUCATION”
    • WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
    • IMAGES IN THE LADY’S MUSEUM: AN ANNOTATED COLLECTION
    • CHARLOTTE LENNOX: ECO-FEMINIST?
  • ABOUT THIS PROJECT
    • EDITING PROTOCOLS
    • HOW TO USE THIS EDITION
    • SITE OVERVIEW
    • PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS
    • AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
    • Reflections on Interning with the Lady’s Museum Project 
  • Enter The Lady’s Museum
  • ABRIDGED TEACHING EDITION
    • CURRICULUM OPTIONS
    • COURSE READER
    • SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS
    • CLOSE READING ASSIGNMENTS
    • DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • TEACHING EARLY MAGAZINES
    • TEACHING WOMEN’S ROLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
    • Teaching Early Magazines via Public Humanities Internships
    • Teaching Early Magazines using Editorial Glossing Activities
    • Teaching Early Magazines by Recording and Managing Audiobook Projects
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  • FURTHER READING

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS

The treatise is translated and extracted from Francois Fenelon (The Archbishop of Cambray) book Traite de l’Education des filles (1687) “by a friend” is thought to be actually Charlotte Lennox. The periodical includes 8 out of 13 chapters from Fenelon’s book. Similar to “Of the Studies Proper for Women,” the treatise makes a case for women to learn disciplinary topics beyond their polite education to fulfill their curiosities and prepare them for their roles as mothers. The chapters focus on the early of education of boys and girls, using John Locke’s method of repetitive impressions to develop intellect and reason. The treatise establishes that learning should be fun for children, by acting out fables and using illustrations to depict stories from the Bible.

[The following Treatise on the Education of Daughters is written by the celebrated Archbishop of Cambray, and translated by a Friend of the Author of the Museum.]

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CHAP. I. Of the Importance of the Education of Daughters. NOTHING is more neglected than the education of daughters; custom, and the caprice of mothers, […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS.

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CHAP. II. The Inconveniences of the common Methods of Education. IT is owing to ignorance that a girl is weary of herself, and knows not […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED.

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CHAP. IV. Cautions concerning Imitation. THE ignorance of children, whose brain hath as yet taken no impression, and who have no formed habits, is what […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED.

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CHAP. IV.  Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. I AM persuaded it would be right to make frequent use of such […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED.

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Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. NOW, though we ought not to make a practice of threatning and never punishing, lest […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED.

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Indirect Instructions, and that Children ought not to be urged. THE simple pleasures are less poignant, less affecting it is true, the others transport the […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED.

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Of the use of History for Children. CHILDREN are very fond of strange stories: it is common to see them in high delight, or in […]

TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONCLUDED.

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The Vanity of Beauty and of Dress. THERE is nothing we ought so much to guard against as vanity in young ladies. They come into […]

LADY'S MUSEUM CONTENTS

SERIES

  • THE TRIFLER
  • THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA
  • THE HISTORY OF THE DUTCHESS OF BEAUFORT
  • THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE
  • PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES
  • THE LADY’S GEOGRAPHY
  • ESSAY ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN
  • TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS
  • THE HISTORY OF BIANCA CAPELLO
  • THE LIFE OF SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK

GENRES

PARATEXT

  • LETTERS
  • POETRY
  • HISTORY
  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • TRANSLATIONS
  • TREATISES
  • DIALOGUE

BROWSE BY VOLUME OR ISSUE

VOL. 1

  • ISSUE 1
  • ISSUE 2
  • ISSUE 3
  • ISSUE 4
  • ISSUE 5

VOL. 2

  • ISSUE 6
  • ISSUE 7
  • ISSUE 8
  • ISSUE 9
  • ISSUE 10
  • ISSUE 11
  • THE MAGAZINE
  • THE COURSE READER
  • THE LADY’S LIBRIVOX
  • THE GLOSSING ACTIVITY
  • THE READING LIST
  • THE EDITORS

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