The whole duty of a woman, or, A guide to the female sex, from the age of sixteen to sixty, &c.
Subtitle: 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 ... : also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery with the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c.
By: written by a Lady.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The eighth edition.
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... R. Ware ... and James Hodges ...
Published: 1735
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.; Traditional medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Whole duty of a woman; Guide to the female sex, from the age of sixteen to sixty, &c.
Notes: LC copy includes bookplate of Walter Wilson.
Numbers 113-120 missed in pagination.
Signatures: A-G¹².
LC copy imperfect: first leaf wanting.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral vertues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance, and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoid the opposite vices; title: II. The duty of virgins directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoid, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state, with the whole art of love; title: III. The whole duty of a wife; title: IV. The whole duty of a widow, &c.