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.
Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Exemplary Women, Ancient and Modern, Note on Copy Texts, Woman Triumphant: Or, the Excellency of the Female Sex (1721), [John Essex], The Young Ladies Conduct: or, Rules for Education (1722), Female Piety and Virtue. A Poem (1725), Jane Sharp, extracts from The Compleat Midwife’s Companion (1725) and Elizabeth Nihell, extracts from An Answer to the Author of the Critical Review … Upon … Mrs. Nihell’s Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), E[liza] S[mith], extracts from The Compleat Housewife, 2nd edn (1728), [George Lyttelton], Advice to a Lady (1733), Advice to the Fair: an Epistolary Essay (1738), A Letter to a Lady. In Praise of Female Learning (1739), Editorial Notes
