The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.
Author
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Publication
London :: printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry,
1673.
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Subject terms
Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66844.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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A very safe Clister to be used by-either Man or Woman, who is much bound or costive.
Take Mallows and Mercury unwasht, of each two handfuls, half an handful of Barley; clean rubbed and washed, and boil them in Spring∣water, from a pottle to a quart, then strain out
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the Water, and put it in a Skillet, and put to it three spoonfuls of Sallet-oyl, two spoonfuls of Honey, and a little Salt, then make it luke∣warm, and with your Pipe administer it.
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