The Gentlewoman's Companion: A Guide to the Female Sex - Hardcover

Woolley, Hannah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0907325998 ISBN 13: 9780907325994

Publisher: Prospect Books, 2001

Synopsis

The Companion is a conduct- as well as cookery-book (the recipes are mainly derived from her earlier works). It also contains an autobiography of the author. In truth it is a rank, but captivating, miscellany, including recipes, medical prescriptions, advice to servants and governesses, hints on upbringing, cosmetics and education, rules of social comportment and conduct, instructions and model letters for correspondence (mainly for young ladies), and 'Pleasant Discourses and Witty Dialogues' between gentlemen and ladies. Great bedtime reading. The editor puts it all in long perspective.

About this title

Product Description:

The Gentlewoman's Companion Aphra Behn is usually described as England's first professional woman writer, but her contemporary Hannah Woolley (Wooley or Wolley) ran her close, though recipes not bodice-rippers were her speciality (mixed with some judicious teaching, housekeeping and medical marketing). Full description

About the Author:

Hannah Woolley (1622-1675) was an English writer who published early books on household management. She married Jerome Woolley, a schoolmaster, in 1646, and ran a grammar schoool with him in Newport, Essex. Later she opened a school in Hackney. When she was widowed in 1661, Hannah Woolley began publishing books on household management in order to earn a living.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prospect Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0907325998
• ISBN 13: 9780907325994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Albano Caterina