http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/1911/emilia-halton-hernandez Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:03 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:03 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/873/wordsworths-prescient-baby-conceptions-of-the-mother-infant-relationship-in-the-development-of-the-self-1790s-1890s By Emilia Halton-Hernandez - This dissertation explores late eighteenth and nineteenth century views of the mother-infant[1] relationship and how they reveal conceptions of the self. I investigate historical changes in the understanding of infantile development, primarily through British baby diaries and childcare advice literature. In two cases examine French authors whose work was translated into English and widely read by an Anglophone audience.[2] First I consider William Wordsworth’s model of infantile development in his 1799 poem The Prelude and briefly look at Locke and David Hartley’s theories of the intellectual... Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:32 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/873/wordsworths-prescient-baby-conceptions-of-the-mother-infant-relationship-in-the-development-of-the-self-1790s-1890s