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Milton’s Bogey Reconsidered
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Abstract
In Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, Hannah More vindicates Milton’s paternal character.1 Defending Milton, she implicitly defends her own father as well, while she manifests a tendency to identify with Milton’s daughters. According to More, Milton merely enforced the “strict domestic regulations of his age” in having his daughters read Greek and Latin to him. However, she overlooks the point of the anecdote: Milton’s daughters were said not to have understood the languages they read. In denying it a hardship “that an affectionate child” should amuse an afflicted parent, More obscures the significance of the story.
Title: Milton’s Bogey Reconsidered
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Abstract
In Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, Hannah More vindicates Milton’s paternal character.
1 Defending Milton, she implicitly defends her own father as well, while she manifests a tendency to identify with Milton’s daughters.
According to More, Milton merely enforced the “strict domestic regulations of his age” in having his daughters read Greek and Latin to him.
However, she overlooks the point of the anecdote: Milton’s daughters were said not to have understood the languages they read.
In denying it a hardship “that an affectionate child” should amuse an afflicted parent, More obscures the significance of the story.
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