Practical Hints to Young Females by Ann Taylor - 9781108076241

Practical Hints to Young FemalesOn the Duties of a Wife, a Mother, and a Mistress of a Family\nAuthor(s): Ann Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108076241, 978-1108076241\nSynopsis\nDisplaying her intellectual and literary abilities from a young age, 'Mrs Taylor of Ongar' [tel] enjoyed writing all her life. She had eleven children, of whom six (four of them writers) survived to adulthood. Her published works began with advice books for her own daughters, produced when increasing deafness made ordinary conversation difficult for her. Given the difficulty of providing advice equally appropriate to girls at all levels of society, this 1815 work is addressed to 'females in the middle ranks'. It is assumed that a girl's aspiration, as well as her destiny, is to be a wife and mother: conduct towards the husband, and the rearing of children, are of prime importance. But there is also a chapter f.