Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Letter of Gentil and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: WilkesA Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady ... The Second Edition.
Author: Wetenhall WILKESA Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Letter, of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady: Being a System of Rules and Informations ; Digested Into a New and Familiar Method, to Qualify the Fair Sex to be Useful, and Happy in Every Scene of Life. By the Revd Mr. Wetenhall Wilkes .. The Fifth Edition. Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, by the Author
Author: Wetenhall WilkesA Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Conduct Literature for Women, Part III, 1720-1770 vol 2
Author: Pam MorrisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040247296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The material presented in this six-volume set moves away from courtly etiquette, adopting a more middle-class, domestic focus, and includes facsimile reproductions of sermons, poems, narratives and cookery books.
The Modern Philosopher, Letters to Her Son and Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar, by Elizabeth Craven
Author: Julia GasperPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527512959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Craven is mainly remembered for her scandalous personal life, but deserves more serious attention. She was influenced by Enlightenment ideas and took a broad interest in the events of her time. The Modern Philosopher (1790) is a satire on the egalitarian theories of the French Revolution. The intellectual Longinius advocates equality in theory as perfectly logical, but is dismayed when his household put it into practice. Its love-plot has a happy ending. Written originally in French, it is here translated for the first time. Letters to Her Son (1784) is a book of advice on marriage that should be regarded as a pioneering feminist text. Craven boldly denounces the tyranny of husbands, the oppressive laws of the institution of marriage, and the fact that women were categorized as “a second sort of beings”. She condemns the law that gave a husband custody of the children after divorce, even if he had been violent or unfaithful. She looks forward to replacing all that with a model of marriage in which the partners are equal companions and seek happiness rather than dominance. Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar (1785) is a satirical poem concerning the battle for Gibraltar which was besieged by the French and Spanish during the American War of Independence. Military vanity, heroic posturing and weird contraptions all serve as targets for her biting wit and artful mockery. Put together, these three works demonstrate Craven’s versatility as a writer and startling modernity.
Author: Wetenhall Wilkes