Mental improvement
By: Priscilla Wakefield ; edited with introduction and notes by Ann B. Shteir.
Contributors: Shteir, Ann B., 1941-
Series: Early English women writers, 1660-1800 ;; no. 4
Publisher: Colleagues Press; Michigan State University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Natural history -- Juvenile literature.; Science -- Juvenile literature.; Natural history.; Science.
Description: Lessons for young people on a wide variety of topics, from whaling and seashells to painting on glass and the origin of navigation, are presented in fictional conversations of an eighteenth-century family.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxi).
Based on the original two-volume version from 1794, originally titled: Mental improvement : or, the beauties and wonders of nature and art, conveyed in a series of instructive conversations.