Jane Marcet
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Standard Name: Marcet, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Haldimand
Married Name: Jane Marcet
was a prolific early-nineteenth-century scientific populariser and later a children's writer. Her textbooks on specialised fields of science and on political economy (designed for school-age girls, but much used by professional men) take the form of dialogues between a female teacher and her students. They represent a marked advance in expectations for the education of women. They and her other pedagogic books for the young were for decades among the most widely used of their day in Britain and North America, and were popular also in translation on the Continent and in many later revisions and adaptations.
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Texts
Marcet, Jane. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806. Editor Rossotti, Hazel, AuthorHouse, 2006.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations for Children: on Land and Water. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Chemistry. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806, 2 vols.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Natural Philosophy. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on the Evidences of Christianity. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
Marcet, Jane. Conversations on Vegetable Physiology. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829, 2 vols.
Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi.
Marcet, Jane. John Hopkins’s Notions on Political Economy. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833.
Marcet, Jane. Mrs. Marcet’s Story-Book. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.
Marcet, Jane. Rich and Poor. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
Marcet, Jane. Stories for Young Children. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1831.
Marcet, Jane. The Mother’s First Book. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.
Marcet, Jane. The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833, 4 vols.