Advice to a Daughter

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Advice to a Daughter is a late 17th-century conduct book offering moral, social, and practical guidance to young women, written by English statesman George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

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instanceOf conduct book
didactic literature
non-fiction book
aim to instruct daughters in social duties
to provide practical guidance for women
to regulate female behavior
author George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax NERFINISHED
circulation widely read among English elites
countryOfOrigin England
genre conduct literature
didactic prose
moral instruction
hasForm prose
hasPart section on behavior in society
section on household management
section on marriage
section on religion
hasTheme chastity
domestic responsibility
obedience
prudence in marriage
reputation and honor
historicalContext post-Restoration England NERFINISHED
influencedBy Christian moral teaching
contemporary conduct literature
intendedAudience daughters of the English gentry
young women
literaryForm letter of advice
literaryMovement Restoration literature NERFINISHED
mainSubject domestic management
family life
female virtue
marriage
moral guidance for young women
religion
social conduct
notableFor articulation of Restoration-era gender norms
influence on later conduct books
originalLanguage English
perspective aristocratic
patriarchal
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationCentury 17th century
timePeriod late 17th century
tone didactic
moralizing

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