2.1 - Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century with Rachel Bynoth

For our first episode of the season, we talk with Rachel Bynoth about distance education in the late-eighteenth century and how using the dual lens of gender and emotions can help us better understand educational processes. We focus on Rachel's recent article in History, A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century, and discuss how a series of letters between two women - Hitty and Bess Can...