[Rarebooks] FS: Newly Added- 1848 Advice for Young Ladies

Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA office at joslinhall.com
Sun Sep 24 08:28:05 EDT 2006


>From our newly released catalog-
RECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
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Ferguson, Anna. THE YOUNG LADY.

Lowell; Nathaniel L. Dayton: 1848.

A charming little pocket-sized book for young women with advice about
living life the right way- choosing good friends, polite conversation,
filial duties, temper, kindness, reading, humility, courtesy, dress,
habits, receiving visitors, and so on. Interestingly, this little volume
on how to conduct oneself like a lady was published in Lowell,
Massachusetts, at exactly the same time that the Lowell factory system was
in full paternalistic overdrive, making sure all the young women in the
company town behaved like ladies. A journal for (and by) these young women
with a similar theme, The Lowell Offering, had ceased publication just
three years earlier.

Hardcover. 2.75”x4.5”, 144 pages, hand-colored frontispiece; publisher’s
brown cloth, elaborately blindstamped, with gilt cover emblem and spine
decoration; covers light faded and just a bit rubbed, contents with
scattered light soil, but overall a lovely copy. [09520] $150.00


To see more Recent Acquisitions go to->
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