Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street
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Catherine Sinclair Monument, North Charlotte Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 8 Jul 2009
Tucked away unobtrusively at the foot of a slope where Charlotte Square meets Queen Street is a grand memorial to the Victorian writer and Christian philanthropist, Catherine Sinclair (1800-64). Her best known work, 'Holiday House', published in 1839, promoted the ideas of the German educationalist Froebel and is regarded as a watershed in children's literature because of its benevolent, non-moralising attitude to children's misbehaviour. The monument was erected in the late 1860s and is the work of John Rhind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Sinclair Image
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Image Location
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55.953013
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-3.207465