Louise Joy is a Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she is the Vice-Principal. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave, 2020), Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation (Bloomsbury, 2019), the co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English (Routledge, 2018) and Poetry and Childhood (Trentham Press, 2010). Jessica Lim supervises English Literature at the University of Cambridge and has previously been a Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish College. Her research focuses on women’s writing and children’s literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and she is particularly interested in literary explorations of theological and pedagogical concerns. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Oxford Research in English.

This rich collection charts the creative mixture of experimentalism and tenderness that informed the growing field of educational literature authored by women 1690-1850. Education in and through literary print forms promoted imaginative collaboration between adults and children. Where women were made responsible for education or claimed it, they also complicated the femininity that was learned. A dazzling variety of genres and voices are brought to new prominence.

• Introduction - Jessica Lim and Louise JoyPart I – Moulding Forms1. Important Familial Conversations: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer, and Ellenor Fenn - Jessica Lim2. Reading Poetry for Children in the long eighteenth century - Felicity James3. Women Writing Geography Texts, 1790-1830 - Michéle Cohen4.‘What follows’: Maria Edgeworth’s works for older children - Aileen DouglasPart II – Acknowledging the Past1. Imitation and Translation: L.E.L. and E.B.B. - Jennifer Wallace2. ‘Wisdom consists in the right use of knowledge’: Socrates as a symbol of Quaker pedagogy in Maria Hack’s Grecian Stories - Rachel Bryant Davies3. Bluestocking Epistolary Education: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot - Jack OrchardPart III – Responding to the Present1.Learning through laughter: Sarah Fielding’s life lessons - Rebecca Anne Barr2. Emotional Regulation: Jane Austen, Jane West, and Mary Brunton - Katie Halsey and Jennifer Robertson3. Staging Women’s Education in Two Anti-Jacobin Novels: More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Hawkins’s Rosanne; Or, a Father’s Labour Lost (1814) - Laura WhitePart IV – Shaping the Future1. Pedagogy as (Cosmo)Politics: Cultivating Benevolence in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Educational Works - Laura Kirkley2. ‘The enemy of imagination’? Re-imagining Sarah Trimmer and her Fabulous Histories - Jonathan Padley3. A Literary Life: A Transatlantic Tale of Vivacity, Rousing Curiosity and Engaging Affection - Lissa Paul

Louise Joy is a Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she is the Vice-Principal. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave, 2020), Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation (Bloomsbury, 2019), the co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English (Routledge, 2018) and Poetry and Childhood (Trentham Press, 2010). Jessica Lim supervises English Literature at the University of Cambridge and has previously been a Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish College. Her research focuses on women’s writing and children’s literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and she is particularly interested in literary explorations of theological and pedagogical concerns. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Notes and Queries, and Oxford Research in English.

This rich collection charts the creative mixture of experimentalism and tenderness that informed the growing field of educational literature authored by women 1690-1850. Education in and through literary print forms promoted imaginative collaboration between adults and children. Where women were made responsible for education or claimed it, they also complicated the femininity that was learned. A dazzling variety of genres and voices are brought to new prominence.

• Introduction - Jessica Lim and Louise JoyPart I – Moulding Forms1. Important Familial Conversations: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer, and Ellenor Fenn - Jessica Lim2. Reading Poetry for Children in the long eighteenth century - Felicity James3. Women Writing Geography Texts, 1790-1830 - Michéle Cohen4.‘What follows’: Maria Edgeworth’s works for older children - Aileen DouglasPart II – Acknowledging the Past1. Imitation and Translation: L.E.L. and E.B.B. - Jennifer Wallace2. ‘Wisdom consists in the right use of knowledge’: Socrates as a symbol of Quaker pedagogy in Maria Hack’s Grecian Stories - Rachel Bryant Davies3. Bluestocking Epistolary Education: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot - Jack OrchardPart III – Responding to the Present1.Learning through laughter: Sarah Fielding’s life lessons - Rebecca Anne Barr2. Emotional Regulation: Jane Austen, Jane West, and Mary Brunton - Katie Halsey and Jennifer Robertson3. Staging Women’s Education in Two Anti-Jacobin Novels: More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Hawkins’s Rosanne; Or, a Father’s Labour Lost (1814) - Laura WhitePart IV – Shaping the Future1. Pedagogy as (Cosmo)Politics: Cultivating Benevolence in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Educational Works - Laura Kirkley2. ‘The enemy of imagination’? Re-imagining Sarah Trimmer and her Fabulous Histories - Jonathan Padley3. A Literary Life: A Transatlantic Tale of Vivacity, Rousing Curiosity and Engaging Affection - Lissa Paul