434 Pages
by
Routledge
434 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
Mrs [Ann] Taylor, Practical Hints to Young Females, on the Duties of a Wife, a Mother, and a Mistress of a Family (1815), [Hannah More], The Wife Reformed ([1800]), Anna Kent, The Kitchen Looking-Glass; or, A Word of Advice to Female Servants. In Dialogues, 2nd edn (1825), Mrs William Parkes, Domestic Duties; or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their Households and the Regulation of their Conduct in the Various Relations and Duties of Married Life, 3rd edn (1828), Appendix: William Alexander, extracts from The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time (1779), Editorial Notes, Index
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