The Lady's pocket library. : Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Marchioness of Lambert's Advice of a mother to her daughter. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables for the female sex.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27192.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social and moral questions.

Women.

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Anthologies.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 4 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Folwell, for Mathew Carey., M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Caption title: The ladies' library.

Error in paging: pages 99-111 misnumbered 100-101, 103-113; pages 112 not numbered.

"Philadelphia, June 17, 1794. Books, &c. for sale by Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street."--4 pages at end.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 27192).

Cited in:

Evans 27192

Contains:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Essays on various subjects.

Gregory, John, 1724-1773. Father's legacy to his daughters.

Pennington, Sarah, Lady, -1783. Unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters.

Lambert, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de, 1647-1733. Advice of a mother to her daughter.

Chapone, Mrs. (Hester), 1727-1801. Letter on the government of the temper.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Letter to a very young lady on her marriage.

Moore, Edward, 1712-1757. Fables for the female sex.

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