The subject of this book is a young woman: an awkward, insecure, restless and 'knowing' child who learns that self-realisation depends on rebellion and escape, but that the latter will first demand at least the semblance of conformity. In telling lies, Laura learns both the astonishing allure of fiction and the social costs of stepping beyond the bounds of propriety, gender, class, and family ties. The novel is only in part a fictionalised account of Richardson's school years at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, where (unlike her fictional counterpart) she was not only academically successful but also an outstanding student of music. Unusual for stories of school-life, The Getting of Wisdom was clearly aimed at a mature readership able to understand irony and a critique of the colonial educational provision of its day, including a determination to preserve sexual ignorance in young women.
This novel had no English counterpart at the time for frank depiction of
adolescent female sexual awareness. Many years later a reviewer compared
Colette's Claudine and Richardson's Laura : 'Miss Richardson ... is at once more
sensitive, ...
In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. In 1808 Mordecai founded the Warrenton Female Academy on the enlightened principles described in the Edgeworths’ guide, Practical Education, and he enlisted family members to teach and manage the school. Rachel Mordecai, inspired by her father’s progressive methods, initiated an Edgeworthian experiment in home education on her young stepsister, Eliza. Rachel’s diary, reproduced in full in Ways of Wisdom, chronicles the moral instruction of Eliza. While retaining the traditional didacticism of wisdom literature, the diary also describes Eliza’s resistance to enlightened discipline and method. Friedman’s case study bears particular importance for scholars as it qualifies and enriches our understanding of the American Enlightenment as an amalgam of religious and ethnic assumptions rather than a universal acceptance of Liberalism or Republicanism. Ways of Wisdom also offers an illuminating reinterpretation of “Republican Motherhood” as a culturally diverse and politically complicated domestic paradigm.
And like Rosamund in Edgeworth's Moral Tales, she confronted the dilemma of
adolescence, to enter society but not be drawn into its passions and idleness.
Eliza enlivened Wilmington society throughout the 1823-24 season. '' ...
A Woman's Way to Wisdom is a journey of self discovery and, like any good thriller, is full of twists and turns. Your reward at the end of this journey is to find the woman you know you can be. You will gain a new and deeper understanding of yourself and an increased ability to share that understanding with those around you. This book helps w...
If, for instance, sexual intercourse leads to an unwanted pregnancy during
puberty, the adolescent girl is going to have to decide for herself whethersheis
readyto become a mother or whether shemust makea decision to terminate the ...
The practice and power of spiritual friendship.
You have spent the last forty or so years in more or less adolescent rebellion
against God. Your own children are only slowly recovering from the
misinformation and distortions with which you so carelessly fed their souls in the
years of their ...
Fictional stories of the Indonesian political prisoners in Boven Digul Concentration camp, Irian Jaya, during the Dutch occupation.
... kabar yang serupa itu pulalah yang ditinggalkan mereka di Pematang Siantar.
Dua belas... dan tiba ke hari yang kelima belasnya, seorang utusan dari pihak
familie Cindai telah datang dari Siantar. Perkataan yang lemak manis yang
diucapkan oleh utusan yang 18) Seterapan = dari straf (Bld) = hukuman. bijak
bestari itu, dengan kata bulat telah diluluskan dengan tiada 20 CERITA DARI
DIGUL berbahaya, bekas orang buangan, bekas perantaian, bekas ...
On capital market, financial disclosure of environmental liabilities under the securities laws, and investor reliabilities in Indonesia.
... Proses semacam itu adalah materiel terhadap bisnis atau kondisi finansial si
pendaftar; (2) Proses semacam itu menyangkut utamanya suatu klaim atas
kerugian, atau menyangkut sanksi-sanksi moneter yang potensial, pembiayaan
modal, ...
On capital market and stock exchange in Indonesia; questions and answers.
Kedua, kelayakan operasi sebuah institusi keuangan sangat ditentukan oleh
skala ekonomis (economies of scale). Artinya, makin besar sebuah institusi
keuangan secara finansial, makin terbuka kesempatan untuk beroperasi secara
efisien.
