1st Edition
Conduct Literature for Women, Part II, 1640-1710 vol 2
428 Pages
by
Routledge
This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century.
Francis Osborne, extracts from Advice to a Son (1658), Eugenius Theodidactus [John Heydon], extracts from Advice to a Daughter (1658), Extracts from A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty (1656), George Savile Lord Halifax, The Lady's New-Year's-Gift: Or, Advice to a Daughter (1700) and engraved frontispiece and title page from the small seventh edition (1701), Anna Maria van Schurman, The Learned Maid (1659), [Bathsua Makin] An Essay To Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673), [Mary Astell], Reflections upon Marriage (1706)
Biography
William St Clair, Irmgard Maassen
