Conduct Literature for Women Part I 1540-1640 vol 6

This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century. The mothers counsel (1630?), The holy court, second tome (1631), The English gentlewoman (1641) and other pieces, 'A kinde husbands advice to his wife' (1637)