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Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education, this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded, self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman, Mrs Margaret Chinnery, who put Madame de Genlis's educational ideas into practice with marked success.

Features over 100 Viotti letters and other documents and drawing extensively on these papers investigates the new light they cast on Viotti's life and career as a violinist, as well as the context in which he lived and worked, his connection with the Chinnery household and his relationship with Mme de Stael.