‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination'

McKim, Anne M.

‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination'

dc.contributor.author	McKim, Anne M.
dc.coverage.spatial	Conference held at Bordeaux, France
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-02T23:57:13Z
dc.date.available	2014
dc.date.available	2014-12-02T23:57:13Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines attitudes to the education of children in elite families in eighteenth-century Scotland revealed in various letters, private papers, and memoirs. It takes as its starting point Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s famous advice to her daughter, Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute (1718-1794), on the education of her granddaughters. Lady Louisa Stuart, one of those six granddaughters, went on to become a writer as well as an avid reader, and later recalled the childhood pleasures of reading books from her grandmother’s vast library. Provision for the education of her daughters and grandchildren, at home and abroad, can also be traced in some detail in the meticulous Household Book and notebooks kept by Lady Grisell Baillie (1665-1746). Her daughter Griseld, Lady Murray (1693-1759), later commemorated her famous mother’s commitment to education. Attitudes to reading, learning languages and education through travel to Europe can be traced in the private papers of these families, and in the views of the children who went on to express their appreciation in memoirs and biographies published in honour of their mothers and grandmothers.
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dc.identifier.citation	McKim, A. M. (2014). ‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination’. Presented at the Congrès de la Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises, Université de Bordeaux, 09 Oct 2014 - 11 Oct 2014, Bordeaux, France.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8877
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.uri	https://sfee2014.wordpress.com/programme/
dc.rights	© 2014 The Author.
dc.source	Congrès de la Société Française d'Etudes Ecossaises, Université de Bordeaux
dc.title	‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination'
dc.type	Conference Contribution
pubs.declined	2014-12-01T12:34:38.182+1300
pubs.elements-id	116192
pubs.finish-date	2014-10-11
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS/School of Arts
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS/School of Arts/English
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/Research Institutes And Research Groups
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/Research Institutes And Research Groups/FASS
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/Research Institutes And Research Groups/FASS/TTRU
pubs.place-of-publication	Bordeaux, France
pubs.start-date	2014-10-09