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Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children, Paperback / softback Book

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children Paperback / softback

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Education series

Paperback / softback

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Displaying her intellectual and literary abilities from a young age, 'Mrs Taylor of Ongar' (1757–1830) enjoyed writing all her life.

She had eleven children, of whom six (four of them writers) survived to adulthood.

Her published works began with advice books for her own daughters, produced when increasing deafness made ordinary conversation difficult for her.

This book, published in 1818, follows her earlier works for young women with a guide to conduct and 'reciprocal duties' within the family.

Stern warnings and cautionary tales are given to show the importance of duty to and respect for parents by children, but the parental duties of care in rearing and especially in education are emphasised.

Early discipline, lovingly applied, is seen as the key to successful parenting, and its absence is deemed disastrous.

Like Ann Taylor's Practical Hints to Young Females (also reissued in this series), the book offers fascinating insights into the middle-class ideal of domestic happiness.

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