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A Father's Legacy to his Daughters
John Gregory
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While I explain to you that system of conduct which I think will tend most to your honour and happiness, I shall, at the same time, endeavour to point out those virtues and accomplishments8 which render you most respectable and most amiable in the eyes of my own sex.
9–10 RELIGION.11 Though the duties of religion, strictly speaking, are equally binding on both sexes, yet certain differences in their natural character and education, render some vices in your sex particularly odious. The natural hardness of our hearts, and strength of our passions, inflamed by the uncontrolled licence we are too often indulged with in our youth, are apt to render our manners more dissolute, and make us less susceptible of the finer feelings of the heart. Your12 superior delicacy, your modesty, and the usual severity . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Great historical document! Horrible message, obviously.
Of course reading a guidebook of female deportment written in the 18th century is going to make a 21st-century feminist scream. And certainly lines like "if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a w
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Perpetuating the 18th century woman’s subjugation under the guise of “fatherly love.” I’m sure he meant well, though; it’s such a relief that our society’s progressive now, and we don’t have to conform to the rules prescribed by conduct books such as this.