Women in the eighteenth century : constructions of femininity / edited by Vivien Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Conduct. from The lady's New-Year's gift, or, Advice to a daughter / George Savile, Marquis of Halifax -- from Letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse / [Elizabeth Singer Rowe] -- from A letter of genteel and moral advice to a young lady / Wetenhall Wilkes -- from Familiar letters on important occasions / Samuel Richardson -- from The female spectator, Vol. 1, Book 1 / [Eliza Haywood] -- from A father's legacy to his daughters / John Gregory -- from Thoughts on the education of daughters : with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life / Mary Wollstonecraft.

Sexuality. from Love given o're, or, A satyr against the pride, lust, and inconstancy / [Robert Gould] -- from A modest defence of public stews, or, An essay upon whoring / 'Colonel Harry Mordaunt' [Bernard Mandeville] -- from Some considerations upon street-walkers with a proposal for lessening the present number of them / Daniel Defoe -- from The female rake, or, Modern fine lady : an epistle from Libertina to Sylvia / [Joseph Dorman] -- from The present state of matrimony, or, the Real causes of conjugal infidelity and unhappy marriages / 'Philogamus' -- from The pleasures of conjugal love explained : in an essay concerning human generation / A physician -- from The ladies dispensatory, or, Every woman her own physician -- from A medicinal dictionary / R. James M.D. -- from An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Magdalen Hospital, for the reception of penitent prostitutes : together with Dr. Dodd's sermons -- 'Practitioner in midwifery', from The pupil of nature, or Candid advice to the fair sex / Martha Mears.

Education. from Treatise on the education of daughters / Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénélon, trans. Rev. T.F. Dibdin, -- from Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady / Hester Chapone -- from Essays moral and literary / Vicesimus Knox -- from Thoughts on the education of daughters : with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life / Mary Wollstonecraft -- from Letters on education / Catherine Macaulay Graham -- from Plans of education; with remarks on the systems of other writers / Clara Reeve -- from Letters on the female mind, its powers and pursuits : addressed to Miss H.M. Williams, with particular reference to her letters from France / Laetitia Matilda Hawkins -- from Reflections on the present condition of the female sex : with suggestions for its improvement / Priscilla Wakefield -- from Strictures on the modern system of female education / Hannah More.

Writing. Self-images. from Poems on several occasions. Written by Philomela / [Elizabeth Singer Rowe] -- from Essays upon several subjects in prose and verse / Mary Chudleigh -- from The adventures of Rivella, or, The history of the writer of Atalantis / [Mary] Delarivière Manley -- from Lasselia, or, The self-abandon'd : a novel / Eliza Haywood -- from The woman's labour : an epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck in answer to his late poem, called The thresher's labour / Mary Collier -- from A letter to such of the servants of Christ, who may have any scruple about the lawfulness of printing any thing written by a woman / 'A.D.' [Anne Dutton] -- from An apology for the conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips more particularly that part of it which relates to her marriage with an eminent Dutch merchant / Teresia Constantia Phillips -- from A narrative of the life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke / Charlotte Charke -- from Works / Susanna Centlivre.

Writing. Public images. from The feminiad : a poem / John Duncombe -- from Monthly review, 18 -- from Critical review, 13 -- from Monthly review, 20 -- from Sermons to young women / James Fordyce -- from Critical review, 27 -- from Monthly review, 48 -- from Monthly review, 48 -- from The female advocate : a poem : occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead / Mary Scott -- from The progress of romance / Clara Reeve -- from The unsex'd females : a poem / Richard Polwhele.

Feminisms. from A serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest / Mary Astell -- from An essay in defence of the female sex -- from The hardships of the English laws in relation to wives -- 'Sophia', from Beauty's triumph, or, The superiority of the fair sex invincibly proved, 1751 ; Part one, Woman not inferior to man, 1739 -- from Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of the women / Mary Hays -- from A letter to the women of England, on the injustice of mental subordination / 'Anne Frances Randall' [Mary Robinson].

Complementing the current upsurge in feminist writing on the eighteenth century, and giving students the chance to make their own re-readings of texts, this anthology gathers together a range of material from conduct manuals to medical texts.

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