The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex.

Date:: 1797

Credit: The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$mine grace or accomplifhment... There isa line of cha= racter drawn between the fexes, which neither can — pafs without becoming contemptible. It is not to make you difpife thofe acquirements which have ever been appropriated to the female fex, that you-are incited to _ mental attainments, but to render you {till more valu-_ able as women; and the better your minds are’cultix 7 vated, the more you will fee the propriety of attend-~ ing to thofe minutiz which become the condition in — ‘which Providence has placed you. i rt Ido not fee how you can acquit yourfelf tolerably in domettic life, without a knowledge of needle work 3 __ but granting your rank and fortune may plage you above the abfolute neceflity of learning that part of © it whichis called plain work—yet confider hew far: the ornamental kinds may be of ufe toamnfe the inter- | vals of pleafures, or other purfuits, as well as to: pro- mote the difplay of an elegant tafte. Even opr inno- cent amufements require variation, and the mind may | be agreeably relieved, by imitating with the needle’ the beantifi] productions of nature—but there is fome- thing which places a {killin needle work in a much more important point of view, and that is, the in-: eonftancy of fortune, which in her ‘capricious moods: has been often known to compel thefe, whom once fhe. filed on, to. procure their {nbfiftence by thofe very . arts which were acquired only for amufement.— Whatever may be a refuurce againft that mutability which marks all human affairs, becomes an object of ‘importance. ah a A proficiency in the arts of domeftic management: and ceconomy, ought juftly to be ranked among the’ accomplifhments of a younglady. You muft be unac- quainted with nothing that appertains to good houle- | wifery. Some girls have I known profefs fo violent an attachment to literary purfuits, that they are con« 5 tent toremain ignorant of common attainments. This! fhews a pitiable weaknefs—elevated minds are atten= tive toevery thing; and, believe me, it is very pof- fible to poifefs a competent knowledge of polite litera~'y$

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