Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Original Stories begins with a frame story that sketches out the education of two young girls by their maternal teacher Mrs. Mason, followed by a series of didactic tales.

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Excerpt from Original Stories From Real Life: With Conversations, Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness H ese converfations and tales an: accommodated to the Brefcnt {late of fo tiety which obliges the author to attempt to cure thofe faults by reafon, which ought never to have taken mm in the infant mind. Good habits, far preferable to the precepts of reafon; but, as this talk requires more judgment than generally falls to the Ice of parents, {ub fiitutes muil be fought for, and medicines given, when regimen would have anfwered the purpofe much better. I believe chofe who examine their own minds will teadil'yr agr cc with me, that reafon, widv difficulty, conquers fettled habits, even when 1t is arrived at fome degree of maturity: why then do we fufi'er children to be bound with fetters, which their halfzfprmed faculties cannot break. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.