The picture, men, that emerges of female education in 17th century England is, on me whole, tamer dismal. Nevertheless, that century also helped set me stage for the education of succeeding years. Although it is beyond the province of this paper to detail me ways that me 17th century had impact on later years, it may be said that, from me very start of me 18th century, certain aspects of the educational picture began to brighten for women, helping to set into motion a series of processes that resulted ultimately, though laboriously, in me much more cheerful image presented by the English female education of today.

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Miriam Balmuth is Professor and Coordinator of the graduate reading program in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Roots of Phonics: An Historical Introduction and other writings in the field of literacy and the history of literacy.