{"date":"July 31","id":"07-31","intro":["Lack of education, writes Defoe, makes a woman “turbulent, clamorous, noisy—” Defoe defied his generation and preached equal education for women. To-day we have co-education, but have we the benefits Defoe predicted?"],"minutes":6,"readings":[{"author":"Daniel Defoe","end":150,"start":148,"volume":27,"work":"Education of Women"}],"slug":"july-31","status":"proofread","title":"Charm School for Women","url":"/harvard-classics/july-31/","words":1133}