In the 18th century, education became a subject of enormous importance. The advent of the Enlightenment led to a wide dissemination of scientific publications, welcoming other platforms that had hitherto been developing underground, such as societies of scholars who exchanged correspondence. This preoccupation with education and knowledge included women who were also concerned about the state of women’s education at the time. Writers and educators such as Mme Le Prince de Beaumont advocated a female education that would bring women up to the level of knowledge of men. She strongly criticised the disregard for women’s aptitudes and argued that women had intellectual capacities that should be exercised. These publications were of great importance in France and England, and her writings were translated and spread to other places such as Spain. This was a moment of great importance in which women’s writings were beginning to gain importance. A few years after the death of Mme Le Prince de Beaumont, the French Revolution broke out and in 1799 Olympe presented the Declaration of the Rights of Women and of the Citizen.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/28506/1/RHM_20.pdf

Resource type: Historical source

Source: Biblioteca completa de educación oinstrucciones para las señoras jóvenes

Language: Spanish

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: Biblioteca completa de educación oinstrucciones para las señoras jóvenes

Abstract: Fragment of text in which Mm Le Prince de Beaumont sets out to educate women and bring them out of the state of intellectual prostration in which they found themselves compared to men

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