The title-page quotes from Fordyce
's sermons for young ladies. The pattern heroine, Louisa Franklin, demonstrates her goodness early in the story by reading Elizabeth Pinchard
's The Blind Child. She weathers her mother's...
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Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...