Adelaide and Theodore

Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.

Chapter I Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter II Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter III Adelaide and Theodore.; Chapter IV Course of Reading pursued by Adelaide, from the Age of six Years, to Twenty-two;