'Love to learn your book': children's experiences of text in the eighteenth century.

Focuses on the texts written by Jane Johnson in the 1740s to teach her children to read. Illustration of the belief on the link between goodness and reading; Role of book learning in childhood in determining the moral qualities of the future adult; Reconstruction of the Johnson family's relationship with text based on the work of historians and through educational ideas of the period; Reading practices of particular adults in the 18th century.