{"id":127,"date":"2010-11-10T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:04:06","slug":"advice-for-young-ladies-new-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/11\/10\/advice-for-young-ladies-new-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for young ladies (new acquisition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/11\/ladies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/11\/ladies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/11\/ladies.jpg 800w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/11\/ladies-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following is a nice addition to our collection of conduct guides for youth (women and men), which we hope some day to be the subject of a full exhibition:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Young Lady\u2019s Pocket Library, or Parental Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(Edinburgh, 1793).\u00a0 The <em>Pocket Library<\/em> collects three of the most popular conduct manuals for women in the eighteenth century: John Gregory\u2019s <em>Father\u2019s Legacy<\/em> (1774), Sarah Pennington\u2019s <em>Unfortunate Mother\u2019s Advice<\/em>(1761, when she was unfortunate in being separated from her husband and children by unexplained marital discord), and the Marchioness de Lambert\u2019s <em>Avis d\u2019une Mere \u00e0 sa Fille<\/em> (1728, translated in 1729). Also present is Edward Moore\u2019s verse <em>Fables for the Female Sex<\/em> (1744), which is in a different vein, written for amusement but still sometimes moralizing and cautionary.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00a0is a quote\u00a0from the Marchioness to her daughter:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world has in all ages been very negligent in the education of daughters . . . they design them to please; they give them no instructions but for the ornament and graces of the body; they flatter their self-love; they give them up to effeminacy, to the world, and to false opinions; they give them no lectures of virtue and fortitude: surely it is unreasonable or rather downright madness to imagine that such an education should not turn to their prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a nice addition to our collection of conduct guides for youth (women and men), which we hope some day to be the subject of a full exhibition: The Young Lady\u2019s Pocket Library, or Parental Monitor\u00a0(Edinburgh, 1793).\u00a0 The Pocket Library collects three of the most popular conduct manuals for women in the eighteenth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}