The woman's almanack, for the year 1694: calculated for the meridian of city and country. Containing many choice, useful, pleasant, and most necessary, observations, adapted to the capacity of the female sex, and not to be found in other almanacks: as, the good house-wife's calendar. A table of expences. The critical days of the year. ... By Dorothy Partridge, midwife, student in astrology.

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Title: The woman's almanack, for the year 1694: calculated for the meridian of city and country. Containing many choice, useful, pleasant, and most necessary, observations, adapted to the capacity of the female sex, and not to be found in other almanacks: as, the good house-wife's calendar. A table of expences. The critical days of the year. ... By Dorothy Partridge, midwife, student in astrology.
Author: Partridge, Dorothy.
Publication: London :: printed for J.S. in the Great Old-baily,; 1694.
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Subject terms: Almanacs, English; Ephemerides; Astrology
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Of Buck-somness and Lust.

The Sister of the Line of Life, on the Mount of the Thumb, long and redish in the Hand of a Woman; also the Mount or ring of the Thumb big, and elevated with many cross disor∣dered Lines, with Lines chequerwise near the Wrist of the Hand; all these denotes and intimates the Woman will kiss in a Corner, or beat her Puff-past with her Neighbour's Rowling-pin; one that cannot fix her Humours to a con∣stant Diet.