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  Advice to a daughter as to religion, husband, house, family and children, behaviour and conversation, friendship, censure, vanity and affectation, pride, diversions : to which is added The character of a trimmer, as to the laws and government, Protestant religion, the papists, forreign affairs / by the late noble M. of H..
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695. ; Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686.
  Description:
  "The character of a trimmer" is given first on the film and has a t.p. which reads: The character of a trimmer ... The third edition. The Advice to a daughter follows The character of a trimmer and has a t.p. which follows ...
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  Directorium cosmeticum, or, A Directory for the female-sex being a father's advice to his daughter : wherein all young ones (especially those of that sex) are directed how they may obtain the greatest beauty and adorn themselves with a holy conversation.
  Date of publication:
  1684
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  In verse. "Entred according to Order." In double columns. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  The New pleasing instructor: or, Young lady's guide to virtue and happiness. Consisting of essays, relations, descriptions, epistles, dialogues, and poetry. / Carefully extracted from the best modern authors. Designed principally for the use of female schools; but calculated for general instruction and amusement. By a lady.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824, ed..
  Description:
  Possibly edited by Mrs. Rowson; cf. BAL, v. 7, p. 308. Error in paging: p. 287 misnumbered 297.
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  The Young lady's parental monitor: containing, I. Dr. Gregory's "Father's legacy to his daughters." II. Lady Pennington's "Unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters." III. Marchioness de Lambert's "Advice of a mother to her daughter."
  Date of publication:
  1792
  

  Author(s):

  Gregory, John, 1724-1773. Father's legacy to his daughters. ; Pennington, Miss, d. 1783. Unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters. ; Lambert, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de, 1647-1733. Advice of a mother to her daughter.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N19261) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 25067) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A father's legacy to his daughters. By Dr. Gregory. ; To which is added a collection of thoughts on civil moral and religious subjects, calculated to improve the minds of both sexes. ; [Two lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1796
  

  Author(s):

  Gregory, John, 1724-1773.
  Description:
  "A collection of thoughts. (Extracted from The hive.)"--p. [92]-120.
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  A plan for the conduct of female education, in boarding schools, private families, and public seminaries. By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. author of Zoonomia, and of The botanic garden. ; To which are added, Rudiments of taste, in a series of letters from a mother to her daughters. ; Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. ; Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver. ; Peddle, M., Mrs. Rudiments of taste.
  Description:
  "Rudiments of taste" is attributed to Mrs. M. Peddle. Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
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  The lady's new-years gift, or, Advice to a daughter
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
  Description:
  "Under these following heads viz. religion, husband, house and familiy, servants, behaviour and conversation, friendships, censure, vanity and affectation, pride, diversions, dancing." Attributed to George Savile Halifax--Wing. ...
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