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The young lady's own book : a manual of intellectual improvement and moral deportment / by the author of "The young man's own book."
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Author of The young man's own book, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Life skills guides.
- Young women.
- Young women--Conduct of life.
- Etiquette.
- Life skills.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Young lady's own book
- Place of Publication:
- Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
- Notes:
- "In preparing the present 'manual' for the use of young ladies, the author has been guided, not more by a desire to offer that which might be really and permanently useful to them, than by a profound respect for the female character ... The materials of the work, which he has drawn from a variety of sources, have been selected with especial reference to actual utility."--Preface, p. vi.
- Copyright 1832 by Key, Mielke & Biddle.
- Frontispiece and added engraved title page drawn by H. Corbould; engraved by G.B. Ellis.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162600614
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