Publications of Lady

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  • Lady. The whole duty of a woman: or, A guide to the female sex. From the age of sixteen, to sixty, &c 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. I Directions how to obtain the divine and moral vertues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humilty [sic], compassion, temperance, and affability, with their advantages; and how to avoid the opposite vices. 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. III. The whole duty of a wife. IV. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery: with the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady. The eighth edition.. London : printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row; R. Ware, at the Sun and Bible, in Amen Corner; and James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1735. ESTC No. T64198. Grub Street ID 289280.