Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Thomas Day: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The History of Sandford and Merton
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- From The English Review (November 1783)
- From The Analytical Review (September–December 1789)
Appendix B: From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1752)
- Health, the Body, and Gender
- Rules and Practice
- Pain and Punishment
- Skills and Recreation
Appendix C: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (1763)
- Books. From Book II
- Magnetism. From Book III
- Astronomy. From Book III
- Books. From Book III
- Female Education. From Book V
Appendix D: From Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1820)
- Meeting with Day
- Edgeworth and Day Travel to Ireland Together
- The Experiment with the Girls
- Day’s Letter to Edgeworth from Avignon, 1769
- Sabrina and Honora
- Day’s Death
Appendix E: Thomas Day and John Bicknell, The Dying Negro (1793)
Appendix F: From Thomas Day, Fragment of an Original Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes (1784)
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