The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex, an electronic edition
Hannah Woolley [ Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670 ]
date: 1675
source publisher: Printed by A. Maxwell for Edward Thomas
collection: Early Modern through the 18th Century
Table of Contents
- Book
- Section: The Epistle Dedicatory
- Section: The Introduction
- Section: The duty and qualification of a Governess to Gentlemen's Children
- Section: A Short account of the life and abilities of Authoress of this Book:
- Section: Good Instructions for a young Gentlewoman, from the age of Six to Sixteen.
- Section: Advice to the Female youngersort:
- Section: The duty of Children to their Parents.
- Section: Of a young Gentlewomans deportment to her Governess and Servants in the Family
- 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 the Government of the Eye.
- Section: Of Speech and Complement.
- Section: Choice and general Rules for a Gentlewomans observation in Conversation with Company.
- Section: Rules to be observed in walking with Persons of Honour; and how you ought to behave your self in congratulating and condoling them.
- Section: Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof. Of Fashions, and their ridiculous apish imitation.
- Section: Of New Fashions.
- Section: Some choice Observations for a Gentlewomans Behaviour at Table.
- Section: Rules for a Gentlewomans behaviour at a Ball
- Section: Rules to be observed by a Gentlewoman in Vocal and Instrumental Musick.
- Section: Of wanton Songs, and idle Ballads.
- Section: Of the Vanities some young Ladies and Gentlewomen are too prone to prosecute.
- Section: Of a young Gentlewoman's fit hours and times for their Recreation and Pleasure, and how to govern themselves, therein.
- Section: What Recreations and Pleasures are most fitting and proper for young Gentlewomen.
- Section: Of the guidance of a Ladies love and fancy.
- 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: Of Womens behaviour to their Servants, and what is to be required of them in the house, or what thereunto appertains.
- Section: Terms for Carving all Sorts of Meat at Table.
- Section: Quaint Directions for the Carving all manner of F O W L.
- Section: Artichoaks Fried.
- Section: Artichoaks Stewed.
- Section: An Almond-Pudding.
- Section: An Almond-Pudding in Guis.
- Section: An Almond-Tart.
- Section: Almond-Cream.
- Section: Apple-Cream.
- Section: Apricocks green Baked.
- Section: Barley-broth.
- Section: B I S K.
- Section: Beef hashed.
- Section: Beef A-la-mode.
- Section: Beef Carbonadoed.
- Section: Beef baked, red-Deer-fashion, in Pies or Pasties, either Surloine, Brisket, Buttock or Fillet, larded or not.
- Section: Beef Collar'd.
- Section: Brawn, how to make a Collar.
- Section: Brawn made of a Sucking-Pig, otherways called Souced Pig.
- Section: A Calves-head roasted.
- Section: Calves-foot Pye, or Neats-foot Pye.
- Section: Capons Souced.
- Section: Calves-Chaldron-Mince-Pyes.
- Section: Capon or Chicken in white-Broth.
- Section: Chicken-Pey.
- Section: Clouted Cream.
- Section: Cabbedg-Cream.
- Section: Carp Stewed.
- Section: Carp Marinated.
- Section: Carp roasted.
- Section: Deer, Red and Fallow, roasted.
- Section: Deer Baked.
- Section: Egg-Mince-Pye.
- Section: Florentines on Paste, or without Paste.
- Section: Flowers of all sorts Pickled.
- Section: Grapes and Goosberries Pickled.
- Section: Geese Boiled.
- Section: Hashes several ways.
- Section: Otherways.
- Section: Hashes of Neats-feet, or any feet, as Calver, Sheep, Deer, Hogs, Pigs or Lambs.
- Section: Hashing of any feet.
- Section: Hares roasted without and with the Skin.
- Section: Ipocras.
- Section: Jellies of several colours for all sorts of Soust Meats, and to be eaten alone.
- Section: Land or Sea-fowl, how to boil them.
- Section: Land-Fowl, the smaller sort, how to boil, as Plowers, Quails, Blackbirds, Rails, Thrushes, Snipes, Wheat-ears, Larks and Sparrows.
- Section: Marrow-Pudding in a Dish baked, garnished with Puff paste.
- Section: Mutton hashed the French way.
- Section: Marinated Mullet, Bace, Gurnet, or Rochet.
- Section: Mullets Fried.
- Section: Mullets or Bace baked.
- Section: Mushrooms Fried.
- Section: Mushrooms stewed.
- Section: Neats-Tongues boiled.
- Section: Neats-tongues Stewed.
- Section: Neats-tongue, an excellent way how to dry them.
- Section: Neats-Tongues roasted.
- Section: Neats-tongue-Minc'-Pye.
- Section: A Norfolk-Fool.
- Section: Oysters stewed.
- Section: Oysters, Fried.
- Section: Oyster-Pyes.
- Section: Otherways.
- Section: Oysters Pickled.
- Section: Ox-cheeks baked in a Pye.
- Section: A Calves-head Pye.
- Section: Puff-paste, the best way how to make it.
- Section: Panado's.
- Section: Posset of Sack, Claret, or White-wine, the best manner.
- Section: Pompion-Pye.
- Section: Pig roasted with the Hair on.
- Section: Pidgeons boiled.
- Section: Pike boiled.
- Section: Pike stewed.
- Section: Pike Souc'd.
- Section: Pike Roasted.
- Section: Quaking Pudding.
- Section: Quince-Pyes.
- Section: An excellent restorative for a weak back.
- Section: A most incomparable broth or drink for a Sick person.
- Section: Rice-Tart.
- Section: Rice-Cream.
- Section: Another excellent and rare Cream.
- Section: Several excellent Sauces for several Dishes, and first for green-Geese.
- Section: An excellent way to roast Salmon.
- Section: Salmon Fried.
- Section: Soust Veal, Lamb, or dry joint of Mutton, Kid, Fawn or Venison.
- Section: Taffey-Tart.
- Section: Venison, how to recover when tainted.
- Section: To make Beef, Ram, or Mutton past for Venison.
- Section: Warden-Tarts.
- Section: A Bill of Fare of Suitable Meat for every Month in the Year.
- Section: Bills of Fare for fasting days or Lent.
- Section: An Introduction to Physick and Chyrurgery.
- Section: What is to be observed by a Gentlewoman before she undertakes the administration of Physick.
- Section: A most approved Receipt for a Quartane Ague.
- Section: For a sudden and violent bleeding at the nose.
- Section: To stop the Bleeding of a Wound.
- Section: An approved Medicine of London-Midwives to break and heal Womens sore breasts.
- Section: An excellent way to dry up a Womans breast.
- Section: An infallible receipt to increase milk in Womens breasts.
- Section: Against a Stinking-breath.
- Section: For a Cancer in a Womans Breast.
- Section: For young Children who by reason of the weakness of their Limbs can neither stand nor go.
- Section: An approved China-broth for a Consumption.
- Section: A most excellent Jelly for the Consumption.
- Section: An excellent Comforter of the Stomach, and helper of Digestion.
- Section: A well-tried Medicine for the Corns on the Feet or Toes.
- Section: An excellent Diet-drink for the Spring to purge the Blood, and cleanse it.
- Section: A Remedy for the Dropsie, whether hot or cold.
- Section: Another for the Dropsie, which hath cured many a Person when they were left and forsaken by Physicians.
- Section: For the Web or Pin in the Eye.
- Section: To cleanse the skin of the face, and make it look beautiful and fair.
- Section: How to cure the bloody Flux.
- Section: A Cure for every sort of Gout.
- Section: How to cure the Green-Sickness.
- Section: An Universal Medicine of wonderful use both for Man and Woman.
- Section: Against the yellow Jaudies.
- Section: Against the Itch.
- Section: An admirable Remedy Against Kibed Heels a certain Remedy.
- Section: What is best to be administred to one sick of the Medsels.
- Section: To cure the Fits of the Mother.
- Section: To take away the Heat of a Burn or Scald.
- Section: For a Scald head.
- Section: A very good receipt for one hurt with Gun-powder.
- Section: How to cure old Sores on the Legs, which have been of so long standing that the Bones have appeared.
- Section: An excellent way to dissolve the Stone.
- Section: A way not only to prevent but to cure the Toothach, or to make an aking-Tooth fall out of it self.
- Section: How to order a Woman with Child, before, in, and after her Delivery.
- Section: An excellent Cordial for Women troubled with Swooning-fits in Travel.
- Section: And first of Candying, Conserving and Preserving.
- Section: How to preserve Barberries.
- Section: Pears preserved.
- Section: Green Pippins Preserved.
- Section: Black-Cherries Preserved.
- Section: Mulberries Preserved.
- Section: Oranges and Lemons Preserved.
- Section: Goosberries Preserved.
- Section: Preserved Roses, or any other Flowers.
- Section: Cherries Preserved.
- Section: Apricocks Preserved.
- Section: Green Walnuts Preserv'd.
- Section: Eringo-roots Preserv'd.
- Section: Ennula-Campana-roots Preserved.
- Section: Conserve of Roses.
- Section: How to Candy all Sorts of Flowers as they grow with their stalks on.
- Section: Candyed Eringo-roots.
- Section: The best and most approved way to dry Plumbs.
- Section: Proper colours for fruitage.
- Section: Quince Marmelade.
- Section: How to make Syrrup of Violets.
- Section: Syrup of Roses.
- Section: Syrrup of Coltsfoot.
- Section: Of DISTILLATION.
- Section: Dr. Stevens his famous Water.
- Section: Aqua Mirabilis.
- Section: A most approved Water for the Eyes.
- Section: An admirable Water against the Stone in the Kidneys.
- Section: An excellent Water for the Worms.
- Section: An excellent artificial Wine like Claret, but much better, and by many degrees brisker.
- Section: An Ointment for any Wound or Sore.
- Section: A Searcloth for all Aches.
- Section: What things belong to a Country Gentlewoman: Of Daries, and making Butter and Cheese.
- Section: How to make your ordinary clouted-Cream.
- Section: To make fresh Cheese in Cream.
- Section: Cream of Codins.
- Section: To make a Junket.
- Section: And first to all Gentlewomen, who though well born are notwithstanding by indigency necessitated to serve some person of Quality.
- Section: To all Maidens, who desire to be Chamber-Maids to persons of Quality.
- Section: Instructions for all Nursery-Maids in Noble Families.
- Section: Instructions for all Chamber-maids to Gentle-women in City and Country.
- Section: Instructions for Nursery-Maids to Gentlewomen, both in London, or elsewhere.
- Section: Instructions for such who desire to be absolute Cookmaids in good and great houses.
- Section: Instructions for under-Cook-Maids.
- Section: Instructions for Dairy-Maids in great Houses.
- Section: Instructions for Laundry-Maids in great Houses.
- Section: Instructions for House-Maids in great Houses.
- Section: To Scullery-Maids in great Houses.
- Letter: Some general and choice Rules for writting of Letters.
- Letter: Of Intelligence or Advice.
- Letter: Of Friend-chastisement.
- Letter: Of giving good Counsel.
- Letter: Of requesting a kindness.
- Letter: Of Recommendation.
- Letter: How elegantly to complain of injuries done.
- Letter: Forms of Address or Visit.
- Letter: Forms of Congratulation.
- Letter: Of Consolation.
- Letter: Form of thanks for Courtesies received.
- Letters upon all Occasions.
- Letter: Of Complement.
- Letter: Another of the like nature.
- Letter: Their Answers.
- Letter: Another Answer.
- Letter: A Letter from a Gentlewoman at a Boarding-School in Hackney, to her quondam School-fellow in London.
- Letter: The Answer to it.
- Letter: From the above-nam'd M.G. to the said S.L. acknowledging her and her School-fellows sorrow for her absence, giving an account of the accustomed care of her Governess.
- Letter: The Answer.
- Letter: To a Kinswoman discoursing about Fashions.
- Letter: A Letter from one Lady to another, condemning Artificial-beauty.
- Letter: The Answer of an ingenious Lady.
- Letter: A Lady to her Daughter, perswading her from wearing Spots and Black-patches in her face.
- Letter: The Answer of a dutiful Daughter.
- Letter: Love protested, with its Repulse.
- Letter: The Answer.
- Dialogues & Discourses: Pleasant Discourses and witty Dialogues between Males and Females, as well gentiliz'd by Birth as accomplish by generous Education.
- Dialogues & Discourses: Addresses of Love and Service, from Erotus to Aurelia.
- Dialogues & Discourses: A merry Dialogue between on ingenious Gentlewoman and a Poetaster or Rimer.
- Dialogues & Discourses: A form of Discourse at a casual meeting between Silvester and Sylvia.
- Dialogues & Discourses: A method of Courtship on fair and honourable terms.
- Dialogues & Discourses: An impertinent and lying Travellers Discourse with his witty and Jocose Mistress.
- Dialogues & Discourses: A Gentleman accidentally hapning into a room where a Company of Ladies were well known to him.
- Section: An Advertisement.
- Section: Books Printed for, and sold by Edward Thomas Bookseller, at the Adam and Eve in Little-Brittain.