Catherine Beecher

After reading a little bit about Catherine's life, it made me look at her writing in a slightly different way. Before I read about her I thought she was incredibly strict on women and seemed to almost want women trapped in the house taking care of the family. Now it seems as if she wrote this more as a manual for teaching that was also applicable to the family life. The methods were all aimed to instill certain values in students as well as the children of a family.