1 791' SOPHIA ON FEMALE EDUCATIOK. 26^ 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



On female Education. 



Sir 



I AM the Sophia who troubled you fotrie time ago witl^ 

 a fummary of my hiftory under the title of a fortunate 

 daughter of idlencfs, and fome further thoughts on fe- 

 male education. 



I have good reafon to confider education, when pro- 

 perly conduced, as the panncaea of the moral difpenfa- 

 Ty; and as it has in general been miferably neglected in 

 all ages and all countries with refpccl to my fex, I 

 have little doubt of your female readers paying fome at- 

 tention to my method of educating my daughter Ala- 

 thea, as it was undertaken in confequence of my owa 

 experience, fet forth in my remarks on the dilTertation 

 on the art of idlenefs, and may be particularly ufeful 

 to thofe who are (till in doubt with refpeft to the pro- 

 priety of treating us women as rational creatures. 



In the lixth year of my fecond marriage, I found 

 myfclf poffeffed of three daughters, all of whom I had 

 iuckled myfelt, and I had no other children ; Ijb that I 

 began to grow uneafy about the future fortunes of a 

 great fleece of mifles, that my foreboding difpofition led 

 me to expeft, 1 imparted my uneafmels to my dear 

 Eugenius : We were walking out together in a lovely 

 fummer evening, and we flopped to look at fo^ne fwal- 

 lows teaching their little brood to fly, forcing tbeaa 

 from the eves of a houfe where they neftled ; the pa- 

 rents twittering and fluttering, and banging with their 

 wings, and the little outs chirping and returning to the 

 ncft. 



