Three Centuries Of Girls' Education

<p>In <i>Three Centuries of Girls'' Education, </i> Mary Anne O''Neil offers both an examination and the first English translation of <i>Les R¿emens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congr¿tion de Paris.</i> Published in 1705, <i>Regulations</i> is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls. It is also one of the few surviving documents describing the day-to-day operations of early Ursuline schools. <p/> O''Neil traces the history of the document from the writings of the Italian foundress of the Ursulines, to the establishment of the religious order in Paris in 1612, to the changes in the organization of Ursuline schools in nineteenth-century France, and, finally, to Mother Marie de St. Jean Martin''s spirited defense of the traditional French Ursuline method after World War II. In the eighteenth century, New Orleans Ursulines used the <i>Regulations</i> as a guide to establish their schools and teaching methods. Overall, O''Neil''s history and translatio

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