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The whole duty of a woman, or, A guide to the female sex : from the age of sixteen, to sixty &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions ought to behave themselves in various circumstances of this life for their obtaining not only present, but future hapiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperence and affability, with their advantages and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins. Directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife. 4. The whole duty of a widow &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c / written by a Lady.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lady.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Women.
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Duty--Early works to 1800.
- Duty.
- Cooking--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 184 pages ; 14 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Guide to the female sex.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Gwillim ..., 1695.
- Notes:
- In part copied word for word from Richard Allestree's The ladies calling, cf. NUC pre-1956 661:389.
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) W2054A
- Cagle, W.R. Matter of taste, 1052.
- Simon, A. Bib. gastronomica, 1617.
- OCLC:
- 33236044
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