Jane Marcet

JM 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.