ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the home-based education for daughters, announce major strides towards the liberal, child-oriented society familiar in Britain and other parts of the West today. The primary education means a minimal programme of instruction aiming to impart the ability to read and perhaps to write, some simple arithmetic, and a good dose of religious indoctrination. At the top of the secondary educational apex in the Romantic period were the endowed grammar schools, and within that group, the smaller number of richly endowed and socially exclusive institutions better known as public schools. Female education is a suitable bridge between an examination of educational opportunities and a discussion of other issues relating to the domestic sphere, because it was precisely in this area that education was most thoroughly domesticated. The child's character is moulded, in its own and society's best interests, and progressive educational development, environmentalist conceptions of childhood, affective family relationships converge are discussed in the chapter.
