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The Ladies' companion / carefully selected and revised by a lady, in the county of Worcester, Mass.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education.
- Women.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Etiquette.
- Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 3 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Language Note:
- Text in English, translated from French.
- Contents:
- First, politeness of manners and behaviour from the French of the Abbe de Bellegarde
- Second, Fenelon on education
- Third, Miss More's essays
- Fourth, Dean Swift's letter to a young lady newly married
- Fifth, Moore's fables for the female sex.
- Notes:
- Preface signed: L.G. [Lyman Gale]. Ward, Jan. 11, 1824.
- Half-title illustration signed: Bowen.
- Samuel Brown Manning printed the Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser from 1824 to 1827.
- Copyright Aug. 19, 1823 by Lyman Gale.
- Error in paging: p. 156 misnumbered 158.
- English translation from the French language of "Le compagnon des dames."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Contains:
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715. De l'education des filles.
- More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Essays on various subjects.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Letter to a very young lady on her marriage.
- Moore, Edward, 1712-1757. Fables for the female sex.
- OCLC:
- 1162326103
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