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.
Extracts from The Art of Governing a Wife; with Rules for Batchelors (1747), Extracts from The Young Gentleman and Lady Instructed (1747), A Letter to a Lady, Concerning the Education of Female Youth (1749), The Bridegroom’s Garland [1750?], [William Kenrick], The Whole Duty of Woman (1753), A Letter of Consolation to a Noble Lady, upon the Differences between Her and Her Lord (1753), Editorial Notes
