Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Young Citizen: Issues of enlightenment, gender, and virtue -- 1 Manners, patrimony, gender: education in mid eighteenth-century England -- 2 'Wiser and better': constructing a rational piety for girls -- 3 'Partizans of liberty and necessity': forming the enlightened citizen -- 4 'An honourable distinction': enriching the familial culture of Rational Dissent -- 5 'Nature's coyest secrets': enlarging the sphere of ideas -- Part II Vice and Misery: Educating the young in the counter enlightenment -- 6 'The paths of religion and virtue': reaching and teaching the children of the poor -- 7 Schemes of salvation: instructing the people in piety and economy -- Part III Childhood Contested: Social and educational reform in the mid-nineteenth century -- 8 'One human family': rescuing the children of the 'dangerous and perishing classes' -- 9 'The elevation of child nature': planting the English kindergarten -- Conclusion: The Long Conversation -- Bibliography -- Index
