Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women on the Various Duties of Life

Authors

Rev. G. S. Weaver

Files

Description

In the preface, the author states that, "Society does little else than to teach its girls to be dolls and drudges," and that his purpose in the book is to give some suggestions as to how women's education should be improved so that women could fulfill their true potential. The "various duties of life" referenced in the title and which are the subjects of the fourteen lectures of the book include: physical, intellectual, and moral elopement; self-culture, improvement, dress, beauty, fashion, employment, education, the home relations, their duties to young men, marriage, womanhood, and happiness.

Publication Date

1878

Publisher

S.R. Wells & Co.

City

New York, NY

Keywords

girlhood, beauty, womanhood, character, education, independence, clothes, fashion, motherhood, American women, female education, physical development, moral, female mind, duty, employment, dependence, home, female worth, moral standards, religious duties, impiety, women's influence, happiness

Rights

No Copyright - United States

Subject

Women; Youth; Women--Education--United States; Women's clothing; Women intellectuals; Women--Employment; Marriage; Women and religion; Happiness; S. R. Wells and Company

Recommended Citation

Weaver, Rev. G. S., "Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women on the Various Duties of Life" (1878). Mother Home & Heaven. 55.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/motherhomeheaven/55