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Author Lady, active 1701.
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. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.
Alternative Title Guide to the female sex
Publication Info London : printed for J. Gwillim, against the Great James Tavern in Bishopsgate-street, 1696.
Edition The second edition.



Descript [6], 52, 69-104, 113-184 p.
Edition The second edition.
Note Imperfect; stained, frayed and tightly bound, with some loss of print; B6-7 (pp. 11-14), C5-8 (pp. 33-40), D3-10 (pp. 53-68) and F5-8 (pp. 105-112) are lacking.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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Author Lady, active 1701.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Guide to the female sex
Descript [6], 52, 69-104, 113-184 p.
Edition The second edition.
Note Imperfect; stained, frayed and tightly bound, with some loss of print; B6-7 (pp. 11-14), C5-8 (pp. 33-40), D3-10 (pp. 53-68) and F5-8 (pp. 105-112) are lacking.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Author Lady, active 1701.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Guide to the female sex

Subject Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [6], 52, 69-104, 113-184 p.
Note Imperfect; stained, frayed and tightly bound, with some loss of print; B6-7 (pp. 11-14), C5-8 (pp. 33-40), D3-10 (pp. 53-68) and F5-8 (pp. 105-112) are lacking.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

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