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Julia M. Dewey
Known for practical books on manners and moral education, this late-19th-century author wrote for classrooms as well as homes. Her work reflects an era when schools were expected to help shape everyday behavior as much as academic learning.
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How to Teach Manners in the School-room
by Julia M. Dewey
About the author
Julia M. Dewey was an American writer whose surviving books focus on conduct, ethics, and schoolroom instruction. She is credited with works including How to Teach Manners in the School-room, Lessons on Manners, and Ethics: Stories for Home and School, which were published in the late 1800s.
Her books suggest a strong interest in character formation through education. Rather than writing fiction for entertainment alone, she seems to have aimed at teachers, students, and families, offering lessons meant to build habits of courtesy, self-control, and moral reflection.
Little biographical information about her appears to be readily available in major public sources, so it is safer to remember her through the books themselves: practical, instructive works from a period when manners and moral training were treated as an important part of everyday schooling.