The female instructor; or, Young woman’s companion

Posted on April 1, 2022 by km55

book, printed text

Title: The female instructor; or, Young woman’s companion: being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character … With many pleasing examples of illustrious females. To which are added, useful medicinal receipts, and a concise system of cookery …
Publication: Liverpool : Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Duke Street, [1812?]

659 811F

Acquired April 2021

The whole duty of a woman

Posted on November 19, 2020 by km55

Title: 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 the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present but future happiness … : also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery with the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. / written by a Lady.
Edition: The third edition.
Published: London : Printed for F. Guillim, against the Great James Tavern in Bishopgate-Street, 1701.

63 701 W628

Acquired October 2019

Posted on December 23, 2019 by km55

Author: Nab, Ralph, author.
Title: An address to the right worshipful the batchelors of Great-Britain : containing an examination of the several articles of impeachment, lately exhibited against them, by the ladies. Together with some reflections on the modern education of the fair sex. To which is added, Pretty miss’s catechism and A poem on the pleasures of a single life, or, The miseries of matrimony / by an old batchelor, aet. 72.
Published: London, Printed for A. Antiquity [1735?]

53 N113 735

Acquired May 2019