The Instruction of Spiritual Children (2024)

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women: Writing Religious Communities

Cynthia Aalders

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2024

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9780191983559

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9780198872283

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Aalders, Cynthia, 'The Instruction of Spiritual Children', The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women: Writing Religious Communities (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198872283.003.0004, accessed 20 June 2024.

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Through the exchange of letters, diaries, and poetry women communicated religious ideas and encouraged the spiritual development of much-loved children. While historians have privileged the role of parents and church leaders in providing religious education, this chapter demonstrates that a range of female relatives and friends—notably aunts and single women—played vital roles in the religious instruction of children. Looking beyond the home and nuclear family also reinforces the importance of literary interactions as an ongoing, innovative means of instruction. Indeed, the transmission of spiritual ideals and the formation of the young owed as much to women’s instruction through life writings as to more formal and well-known activities, including catechisms, hymns, and Sunday School. The spiritual theme of holy living had particular meaning for women endeavouring to teach children how to order their lives.

Keywords: child, aunt, single woman, letter, diary, poetry, religious instruction, holy living

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European History

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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women: Writing Religious Communities. Cynthia Aalders, Oxford University Press. © Cynthia Aalders 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198872283.003.0004

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