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… of rational Creatures’. 6 Being able to converse well on a wide range of subjects including natural history, chemistry, mineralogy and botany ensured that a guest would be ‘particularly esteemed’. (Gleadle 64) 3 . Kathryn Gleadle, … 24 In the following excerpt from the conversation ‘On Oxygen and Nitrogen’ in Jane Marcet’s seminal Conversations on Chemistry , Mrs B. the governess, is corrected by one of her pupils. 23 . Harriet Beaufort, Dialogues on Botany for the … for it was always invisible. Mrs B. True, my dear, the expression was incorrect. 25 25 . Jane Marcet, Conversations on Chemistry [1805], 2 vols, 3rd ed. (London, 1809), vol 1, p. 140-141. As conversation became feminized and privatised, the …
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