Papers for Thoughtful Girls: with Illustrative Sketches of some Girls' Lives
by: Tytler, Sarah; [Keddie, Henrietta]

Hardcover. Boston, Crosby and Nichols, 1st US, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured light blue cloth, gilt lettering and design on spine, 7 x 5 inches, frontispiece engraving of a young woman feeding a child on her lap with a spoon, a young lad seated at the table; three additional plates. 344 pages. Fifteen stories, each intending to teach moral precepts. They are Youth, Intellect, Beauty, Favor, Ambition, Pleasure, Friendship, Love, Godliness, Kindliness, Fashion, The Life of Pride and Levity, The Life of Sense and Heaviness, The Life of Sarcasm and Bitterness, Consolations."Sarah Tytler" was the pen name of Henrietta Keddie (1827-1914), a Scottish novelist. "Her domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books for girls." - wikipedia. The artist, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), became a celebrated English painter, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Covers with light soil.