Gisborne, Thomas

An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex

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for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies London 1798 The Third Edition, Corrected. 8vo. [216 x 137 x 29 mm]. viii, 448 pp. Contemporary binding of red goatskin, the covers with a border composed of a gilt "Greek-key" roll, a gilt foliate roll, a blind chain roll and a blind tendril roll, and a central gilt fillet panel with concave corners. Smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second, the others with a central medallion, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Spine a little faded and a few small patches of rubbing). A very good copy. First published in 1797, Gisborne's Enquiry was one of many books of advice for young women in the wake of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications of the Rights of Women, 1792. Gisborne was an evangelical clergyman and takes a fairly traditional view of the subject, save for an antipathy to forced marriage and some respect for intellectual women. The chapters deal with the "character of the female mind discriminated", female education, "on amusements in general", matrimonial life, and parental duties.

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