CMP Review 2025-09-16

September 16, 2025

I love to read Charlotte Mason’s own writings. I’ve read the volumes several times and I love the living ideas they contain. But I also like to read about how ordinary people have actually applied those ideas in their schools and contexts. Especially of interest to me are the accounts from parents who taught their children at home.

Recently when I was paging through the 1917 Parents’ Review I stumbled across one such article. It was actually a paper read by a mother at the annual PNEU conference at a time when England was at war and Charlotte Mason herself was leading her movement. This mother’s account includes those little details that make it a satisfying glimpse into a first-generation Charlotte Mason homeschool. Spoiler: some of these details have to do with the Book of Centuries!

This vintage paper by Mrs. John Buchan has been transcribed by our team and recorded by Haley Struecker. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. You can find it here.

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