Exercise For Young Ladies
Anon
Genre: | Essay |
Subjects: | Education, Health, Botany, Gender |
Ridicules the physical exercises practised at girls' schools and suggests that a much more beneficial and pleasing form of exercise would be to take the girls on an afternoon walk. They could bring back wild flowers to the teacher who, having 'a little knowledge of botany', would instruct them. | |
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