418 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century. The material presented in this six-volume set moves away from courtly etiquette, adopting a more middle-class, domestic focus, and includes facsimile... Read more
John Bennett, extracts from Letters to a Young Lady, on a variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding (1789), Richard Polwhele, extract from Discourses on Different Subjects, 2nd edn (1791), [Laetitia Matilda Hawkins], extract from Letters on the Female Mind, its Powers and Pursuits; with particular reference to the Dangerous Opinions Contained in the Writings of Miss H. M. Williams, 2nd edn (1801), Robert Gillet, extract from The Pleasures of Reason: or, the Hundred Thoughts of a Sensible Young Lady (1796), Editorial Notes
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