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Magasin des enfans . The young ladies magazine: or, Polite tutoress. Containing dialouges between a governess and several young ladies of quality her scholars. In which each lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper, and inclination. Their several faults are pointed out, and the easy way to mend them, as well as to think and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understanding with useful knowledge. A short and clear abridgement is also given of sacred and profane history, and some lessons in geography. The useful is blended with the agreeable throughout, the whole being interspersed with proper reflections and moral tales. By Madam Le Prince De Beaumont. Third edition. Vol. V.
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIXIII. [i.e. 1792]- E-books
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Madam Johnson's present Or, Every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. Spelling, reading, writing, and arith[met]ick taught without the help of a master. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry, and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordindary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketing, cookery, pickling, preserving,&c. To this edition is added, several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published. The compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this book come as cheap as possible to the purchasers, has out of her benevolence, fixed the price at 1s. 6d. bound; though it contains double the quality that is usually sold for that sum.
Johnson, Mary, fl. 1753.Date: 1759- E-books
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Magazin des enfans: or, The young misses magazine containing dialogues between a governess and several young ladies of quality her scholars. In which each lady is made to speak according to her particular genius, temper, and inclination; their several faults are pointed out, and the easy way to mend them, as well as to think, and speak, and act properly; no less care being taken to form their hearts to goodness, than to enlighten their understandings with useful knowledge. A short and clear abridgment is also given of sacred and profane history, and some lessons in geography. The useful is blended throughout with the agreeable, the whole being interspersed with proper reflections and moral tales. By Madem. Le Prince de Beaumont. Translated from the French.
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]