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Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children

Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children

Ann Taylor
January 2015
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9781108076258
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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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    January 2015
    Paperback
    9781108076258
    190 pages
    218 × 139 × 11 mm
    0.27kg
    1 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Mutual respect
    • 2. Family harmony
    • 3. Self-will
    • 4. On some mistakes in education, and the correction of them
    • 5. Pecuniary affairs
    • 6. Rising rank in life
    • 7. Parental and filial conduct, as it relates to the sexes
    • 8. Partiality
    • 9. Settling in life
    • 10. Religion
    • 11. The death of parents
    • 12. To childless persons
    • 13. The orphan
    • Conclusion.
      Author
    • Ann Taylor