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The pleasures of marriage, in ten books : containing a copious display of what the ensuing lines are an abstract ... with stories more profuse, young master's coating, Madam's genius shews / by Lemuel Gulliver.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Surgeon), author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Gulliver, Lemuel.
- Marriage--Fiction.
- Marriage.
- Weddings--Fiction.
- Weddings.
- Celibacy--Fiction.
- Celibacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 84 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Pleasures of marriage, in ten books
- Place of Publication:
- J. Robinson
- Contents:
- Book I. The Consent is given, the Time appointed, the Marriage solemniz'd, and Wedding kept
- Book II. Madam goes to buy Houshold-Furniture; the Ingratitude of some of the Wedding-Guests, and Thankfulness of others; with other no less entertaining Particulars
- Book III. Our young Couple walk abroad; are courteously treated by all their Acquaintance; with their Journey into the Country for Pleasure; and other Things of great Importance to Know
- Book IV. The buxom Dame gossips with her Neighbours, complains she is not with Child, consults the Doctor, is order'd Physick, with other Matters too engaging to be overlook'd
- Book V. Joyful News, Madame proves with Child, and longs; with the Pleasures that attend both Also some remarkable Accidents, not taken Notice of by any other Author
- Book VI. Childbed Linen is to be provided; the Care of the Infant; Choice of a Midwife and Nurse; vastly important as well to the Husband as his Spouse and Child
- Book VII. The good Woman falls in Labour; with various other entertaining Concomitents
- Book VIII. The good Woman is delivered; the Beauty of the Child; the instructive, and delightful Tales of the Gossips; and the extravagant Raptures of the Husband, &c.
- Book IX. The Child is christen'd; the Feast provided for the Gossips, the true Stories they relate, very delightful to read, and instructive to remember
- Book X. The Child is coated; a Feast upon the same, very wonderful to be related.
- Notes:
- Work of fiction.
- Attributed to Lemuel Gulliver.
- Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
- OCLC:
- 1113901101
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