Sign alphabet exhibition – Education for the people

Education for the people. By Mrs Hippisley Tuckfield, London, Taylor and Walton, 1839.

Charlotte Hippisley Tuckfield, née Mordaunt (1777-1848) was the wife of Richard Hippisley Tuckfield, of Devon.  They inherited property at Little Fulford and Charlotte had the lodge at nearby Posbury House converted into a training centre for school teachers.  This later became part of the University of Exeter.

Published initially in The Cottager’s monthly visitor, (1824-6), in Education for the people, Charlotte Hippisley Tuckfield devoted the fourth section of the book to the education of deaf children.  It takes the form of a series of letters.

http://www.posbury.org.uk/stlukes.html

http://www.boddyparts.co.uk/hippisleyfamily.htm

Through the left hand page you can just make out Selwyn Oxley’s hideously spidery handwriting, which is in most of the historical books!