1st Edition

Adelaide and Theodore by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis

By Gillian Dow Copyright 2007
    560 Pages
    by Routledge

    560 Pages
    by Routledge

    Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.

    Chapter I Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter II Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter III Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter IV Course of Reading pursued by Adelaide, from the Age of six Years, to Twenty-two;