Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Didactic Miscellany Collections

Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Didactic Miscellany Collections

This paper analyses the didactic miscellany collections for young female readers by the English writer Charlotte Smith. In these texts, through dialogues and conversations, the young protagonists are seen to learn from their daily experiences of walking in the natural world. Smith’s texts also offer...

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Main Author: Begoña Lasa-Álvarez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Valladolid 2020-10-01
Series:ES Review
Subjects:
charlotte smith
literature for children and young adults
eighteenth century
education
mobility
Online Access:https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/3948
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spelling doaj-45a012768cdd4528a3b5998c8a9455a22020-12-09T12:37:17ZengUniversidad de ValladolidES Review2531-16462531-16542020-10-01411577610.24197/ersjes.41.2020.57-75Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Didactic Miscellany CollectionsBegoña Lasa-Álvarez0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8045-3557Universidade da CoruñaThis paper analyses the didactic miscellany collections for young female readers by the English writer Charlotte Smith. In these texts, through dialogues and conversations, the young protagonists are seen to learn from their daily experiences of walking in the natural world. Smith’s texts also offer remarkable examples of girls on the move in another sense, in that some of the young female protagonists appear to be escaping from distressing family and financial circumstances, in search of better life opportunities.https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/3948charlotte smithliterature for children and young adultseighteenth centuryeducationmobility
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eighteenth century
education
mobility
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title Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Didactic Miscellany Collections
title_short Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Didactic Miscellany Collections
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description This paper analyses the didactic miscellany collections for young female readers by the English writer Charlotte Smith. In these texts, through dialogues and conversations, the young protagonists are seen to learn from their daily experiences of walking in the natural world. Smith’s texts also offer remarkable examples of girls on the move in another sense, in that some of the young female protagonists appear to be escaping from distressing family and financial circumstances, in search of better life opportunities.
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literature for children and young adults
eighteenth century
education
mobility
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