The Gentlewomans Companion, an electronic edition. Edited with an introduction by Katherine Ellison
Anonymous
date: 1673
source publisher: Printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman
collection: Early Modern through the 18th Century
Table of Contents
- critical introduction
- Introduction to The Gentlewomans Companion
- Section: The Authorship of The Gentlewomans Companion
- Section: Hannah Wolley: Her Life and Works
- Section: Locating the Companion in Seventeenth-Century Women's Education and Literature
- Section: The Gentlewomans Companion: Textual Explanation and Notes
- Bibliography: The Gentlewomans Companion: Works Cited
- Introduction to The Gentlewomans Companion
- Book: The Gentlewomans Companion
- Preface: To all Young Ladies, Gentlewomen, and all Maidens whatever.
- Introduction: The Introduction
- Section: A Short account of the life and abilities of Authoress of this Book
- Section: What qualifications best become and are most suitable to a Gentlewoman
- Section: Of a Gentlewomans civil Behaviour to all sorts of people in all places
- Section: Of the Gait or Gesture
- Section: Of Speech and Complement.
- Section: Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof. Of Fashions, and their ridiculous apish imitation.
- Section: What Recreations and Pleasures are most fitting and proper for young Gentlewomen.
- Section: The Gentlewomans Mirrour, or Patterns for them imitation of such famous Women who have been emment in Piety and Learning
- Section: Of Marriage, and the duty of a Wife to her Husband.
- Section: What is to be observed by a Gentlewoman before she undertakes the administration of Physick.
- Section: Choice and Experimental Observations in Physick and Chyrurgery, such which rarely fail'd any who made trial thereof.
- Bibliography: The Gentlewomans Companion: Works Cited
- back matter