The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. The third edition. By Hannah Woolley.
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
- Date:
- 1682
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About this work
Also known as
Gentlewomans companion
Guide to the female sex
Publication/Creation
London : printed by T. J. for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, 1682.
Physical description
24 unnumbered pages, 240, 217-371 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded) : portrait (metal cut)
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) W3278.
Notes
Title page in red and black.
The frontispiece portrait of the author is signed: W: Faithorne fe:.
The words "Children ... husbands." and "Huswifes ... to all." are bracketed together on title page.
Includes contents.
With a final advertisement page.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2104:10) s1999 miun s