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Conduct Literature for Women, Part IV, 1770-1830

Edited by
Pam Morris

Published: 1 Jun 2005
DOI: 10.4324/9781851968022
Set ISBN: 9781851968022

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. 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.

Social and literary historians recognise the 1790s as a moment of political crisis and turbulence in British history: the intense reactions in Britain to increasing revolutionary violence in France politicised almost every aspect of cultural life. At the centre of discursive hostilities was the opposition between sentimentality, on the one hand, and rationality, on the other. Two of the most important literary forms utilised for expressing these polemics were novels and treatises on education, as well as conduct writing. Conduct Literature for Women IV, 1770-1830 makes available this body of writing, which has been less well studied in respect to the war of ideas than the former two.

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General Introduction

Volume 1. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Extract from Letters on Female Education, addressed to a Married Lady (1777), Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Extract from Dialogues concerning the Ladies (1785), Dialogue I, Dialogue II, Dialogue III, Dialogue IV, Dialogue V, Dialogue VI, Dialogue VII, Extracts from Female Tuition; or, An Address to Mothers, on the Education of Daughters, 2nd edn (1786), Preface, Introduction, Maternal Authority, Domestic Attention, Female Honour, Knowledge, Virtue, Religion

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Volume 2. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Extracts from Letters to a Young Lady, on a variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding (1789), Letters to a Young Lady, Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Letter VII, Letter XLI, Letter XLII, Letter XLIII, Letter XLIV, Letter XLV, Letter XLVI, Letter XLVII, Letter LVII, Letter LVIII, Letter LIX, Letter LX, Letters to a Young Lady: Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter IX, Letter X, Letter XI, Letter XII, Letter XIII, Letter XIV, Letter XV, Letter XVI, Letter XLIV, Extract from Discourses on Different Subjects, 2nd edn (1801), Discourse XVIII, Discourse XIX, Extract from Letters on the Female Mind, its Powers and Pursuits; with particular reference to the Dangerous Opinions Contained in the Writings of Miss H. M. Williams, 2nd edn (1801), Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Letter VII, Extract from The Pleasures of Reason: or, the Hundred Thoughts of a Sensible Young Lady (1796), To the Young Reader, The Hundred Thoughts of a Sensible Young Lady

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Volume 3. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, 3rd edn (1803), Vol. I, Introduction, Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Letter VII, Letter VIII, Letter IX, Letter X, Letter XI, Letter XII, Letter XIII, Letter XIV, Additional Notes and Observations

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Volume 4. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, 3rd edn (1803), Vol. II, Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Letter VII, Letter VIII, Letter IX, Letter X, Letter XI, Letter XII, Letter XIII, Additional Notes and Observations

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Volume 5. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Letters on the Importance of the Female Sex, Preface, Letter I, Letter II, Letter III, Letter IV, Letter V, Letter VI, Letter VI, Letter VIII, Letter IX, Letter X, Epistles on Women, Introduction, Epistle I, Epistle II, Epistle III, Epistle IV, Notes, Advice to Young Ladies, Dedication, Advertisement, Address the First, Address the Second, Address the Third

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Volume 6. Conduct Literature for Women 1770–1830

Practical Hints to Young Females, Advertisement, No. I, No. II, No. III, No. IV, No. V, No. VI, No. VII, No. VIII, No. IX, No. X, No. XI, No. XII, The Wife Reformed, The Kitchen Looking-Glass, Introduction, The Kitchen Looking-Glass, &c., Dialogue I, Dialogue II, Dialogue III, Dialogue IV, Domestic Duties, Introductory Remarks, Part I: Conversation I, Conversation II, Conversation V, Conversation VI, Part II: Conversation I, Part III: Conversation I, Conversation II, Conversation III, Part IV: Conversation I, Appendix

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