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Written by the author of the Young Man's Guide, Young Husband, Young Wife, House I live in, and more, The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence is a book written to encourage holiness in unmarried women from twelve to twenty years old. In this last section of the book, Alcott discusses the importance of punctuality, exercise, sleep, and a woman's ability to support herself if the need arises. Alcott also discusses the proper way a Christian visit should be conducted, the Bible as the best book on manners, health and beauty, ugliness as the result of sin, the importance of neatness, the purpose of clothes and ornaments, the dangers of "dosing and drugging," taking care of the sick as part of a woman's essential education, intellectual improvement, social improvement, and moral progress.

Publication Date

1845

Publisher

Waite, Peirce & Company

City

Boston, MA

Keywords

young women, woman's guide, holiness, female responsibilities, punctuality, exercise, sleep, laziness, visiting, manners, health, beauty, neatness, clothing, intellectual improvement, self-improvement, self-denial, fashion, selfishness

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No Copyright - United States

Subject

Young women--Conduct of life; Self-culture; Life skills--Handbooks, manuals, etc; Christian family; Beauty, Personal; Cleanliness; Waite, Peirce and Company

The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence (Part 3)

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