A Rule for Children and Other Writings
By: Jacqueline Pascal ; edited and translated by John J. Conley
Contributors: S.J., John J. Conley (Translator)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780226648330
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; Social Science; Religion - Catholicism; Sociology; Christianity - History - Catholic; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; France; History; Jansenists; Sources
First sentence: This selection of poetry features the works that established Jacqueline Pascal's reputation as a poet in her adolescence.
Description: Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, 'A Rule for Children', which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal.