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.
Thomas Marriott, extracts from Female Conduct: being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing (1759), Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, 3rd edn (1761), Friendly Advice. To the Fair Sex in particular (1763), Editorial Notes
