Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a view of the principles and conduct prevalent among women of rank and fortune.
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. Leather over boards. Duodecimos. xx, 302 and viii, 338 pages.
More believed that women are naturally more religious than men, and that women’s education and conduct were vital to the nation’s moral state. This is her critique of what she saw as "the present erroneous system" of what was then considered modern education of women.
Both volumes bear the attractive armorial bookplate of Jonathan Pytts, Esquire, on front pastedowns.
Fine in contemporaneous leather bindings. Gilt titled and ornamented spines, speckled edges. Minimal extremity wear, mild offsetting around edges of endpapers.
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