Plan of Study for Girls was an educational curriculum devised in the 16th century by Juan Luis Vives for the education of girls, primarily for Princess Mary, daughter and then-heiress of Henry VIII of England and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.[1][2]
The curriculum was written at the request of the then Queen.[3][4] Vives delivered the work, De Ratione Studii Puerilis in the form of a long letter, written from Oxford, England in October 1523.[5] Two separate texts were included; one, with advice for a girl's education, was aimed at Princess Mary Tudor; the second text, dealing with the education of boys, was aimed at Charles Mountjoy, the son of the queen's chamberlain William Mountjoy.[4]
The text for the Princess Mary Tudor advised that she should "write down with her fingers anything the tutor should designate", and that she focus particularly on learning the Latin names for "clothes, parts of the house, food, divisions of time, musical instruments, [and] house furniture".[6]
References edit
- ^ p.27, Susan James, Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love, Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire
- ^ Wilcox, Helen (13 November 1996). Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46777-3.
- ^ In Defence of Women. Modern Humanities Research Association. 13 August 2018. ISBN 978-1-78188-774-5.
- ^ a b Vives, Juan Luis (15 March 2000). The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-85814-2.
- ^ Doran, Susan; Freeman, Thomas (21 June 2011). Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-0-230-34510-2.
- ^ Roches, Madeleine; Roches, Catherine (November 2007). From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-72339-6.
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