Author: Hannah WOLLEYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Gentlewomans Companion, Or a Guide to the Female Sex: Containing Directions of Behaviour in All Places ... from Their Childhood Down to Old Age. ... With Letters&discourses Upon All Occasions ... Whereunto is Added, a Guide for Cook-maids, Dairy-maids, Etc
Author: Hannah WOLLEYThe Gentlewoman's Companion
Author: The Gentlewomans Companion, Or, a Guide to the Female Sex
Author: Hannah WoolleyPublisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780907325994
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Aphra Behn is usually described as England's first professional woman writer, but her contemporary Hannah Woolley (Wooley or Wolley) ran her close, though recipes not bodice-rippers were her specialty (mixed with some judicious teaching, housekeeping and medical marketing). It seems amazing, therefore, that apart from a slight compendium, nothing of hers is available today - when women's studies have so strong a following. Her output is confusing and disputed, even the portrait in this second edition of her book is not of her but one Sarah Gilly, but all is made clearer by the long introduction by Caterina Albano, who has studied women's domestic literature for this period, and who urged us to produce this new, unabridged setting of the book (it is not a facsimile). The Companion is a conduct- as well as cookery-book (the recipes are mainly derived from her earlier works). It also contains an autobiography of the author. In truth it is a rank, but captivating, miscellany, including recipes, medical prescriptions, advice to servants and governesses, hints on upbringing, cosmetics and education, rules of social comportment and conduct, instructions and model letters for correspondence (mainly for young ladies), and 'Pleasant Discourses and Witty Dialogues' between gentlemen and ladies.
The Gentlewomans Companion, Or, A Guide to the Female Sex
Author: Hannah WoolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Gentlewomans Companion ; Or, a Guide to the Female Sex
Author: Hannah WolleyThe Gentlewoman's Companion; Or, a Guide to the Female Sex. ... Whereunto is Added A Guide for Cookmaids ... Third Edition
Author: Hannah WOLLEYA Historical Dictionary of British Women
Author: Cathy HartleyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781857432282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This reference work brings together biographies of over 1000 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, offering an engaging record of female achievement spanning 2000 years of British life.
Essays in Defence of the Female Sex
Author: Manuela D’AmorePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443864846
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Letters, diaries, memoirs, conduct books and early feminist pamphlets: Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England is a two-part, text-based volume on the pivotal figures and most distinctive, sometimes contradictory, aspects of the querelle des femmes in Stuart England. Background information is given through male and especially female-authored sources, while the close analysis of [Hanna Woolley]’s, Bathsua Makin’s, Marry Astell’s, Judith Drake’s and Eugenia’s most renowned tracts sheds light on women’s difficult path towards emancipation. Addressed to both specialist and non-specialist readers, Essays in Defence of the Female Sex will also explain why–and to what extent–early feminist pamphleteering combined theory with practice, tradition with innovation, reality with utopia.
The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
Author: Sara PennellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441191860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.
Female Alliances
Author: Amanda E. HerbertPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300177402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.