From musings on nature to reflections on the role of education in society, this collection of essays by Elizabeth Wordsworth offers a glimpse into the mind of one of history's most thoughtful and influential educators. Wordsworth, a distant relative of the poet William Wordsworth, was the founder of one of the first women's colleges at Oxford University. Her words are as inspiring and relevant today as they were when they were first written over a century ago.

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