A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools, Private Families, and Public Seminaries...to which are added, the rudiments of taste, in a series of letters from a mother to her daughters.
Philadelphia: Printed by John Omrod, 1798. First American edition of this educational classic that shows the influence of Rousseau on the work of Erasmus Darwin (1731 – 1802). First published in London the previous year. Included in this edition is an American printing of Mrs. M. Peddle’s Rudiments of Taste.....