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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ann Fisher
AF
's example apparently encouraged other women (Ellen Devis
in 1775 and Eleanor Fenn
in 1801) to publish grammars for children.
Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol.
33
, No. 1-2, John Benjamins, pp. 11-38.
11
In 1784 a writer in Barbados recommended the study of Fisher's grammar...
Timeline
1783: Lady Eleanor Fenn, a well-known writer for...
Women writers item
1783
Lady Eleanor Fenn
, a well-known writer for children, published three works this year: Fables and Fables in Monosyllables, both as Mrs Teachwell, and Rational Sports in Dialogues Passing Among the Children of...