A young Corinthian woman adorning an urn with flowers. Engraving by J.J. Flipart after J.M. Vien.

A convalescent young woman reading. Gouache painting by David Bles.

A young woman from the Hawaiian Islands. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin after J. Webber, 17--.

Four young women holding flowers. Photograph by J.M. Cameron, 1868.

Hassan, Karnataka, India: young women fetching water from a well at an orphanage. Photograph.

A young woman from Tahiti, dancing. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin, 1784, after J. Webber.

Two young women in Breton costume are talking together on the side of a grassy bank. Etching by Ad. Lalauze.

A young man offers his hand to help a young woman cross a bridge over a brook, but she turns back as the bridge is too narrow. Engraving by W. Angus, 1793, after T. Stothard.

A young woman in Tahiti, wearing a large skirt. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1784, after J. Webber.

London Society for the Protection of Young Females. Wood engraving.

New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.

A surgeon preparing to let blood from the foot of a girl, in the presence of five other figures. Oil painting after Richard Brakenburg.

Essays on various subjects , principally designed for young ladies.

Sermons to young women , in two volumes. By James Fordyce, D.D.

Letters to a young lady , on a variety of useful and interesing [sic] subjects: calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding "that our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett. In two volumes. Vol I[-II].

An unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington . By the Late Lady Pennington.

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Young women

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Essays on various subjects , principally designed for young ladies.

Sermons to young women , in two volumes. By James Fordyce, D.D.

Letters to a young lady , on a variety of useful and interesing [sic] subjects: calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding "that our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett. In two volumes. Vol I[-II].

An unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington . By the Late Lady Pennington.

Sermons to young women , in two volumes. By James Fordyce, D.D.

Young women

Images from the collections

Images referencing Young women

Works from the collections

Essays on various subjects , principally designed for young ladies.

Sermons to young women , in two volumes. By James Fordyce, D.D.

Letters to a young lady , on a variety of useful and interesing [sic] subjects: calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding "that our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett. In two volumes. Vol I[-II].

An unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington . By the Late Lady Pennington.

Sermons to young women , in two volumes. By James Fordyce, D.D.

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