Tytler, Sarah; [Keddie, Henrietta]. Papers for Thoughtful Girls: with Illustrative Sketches of some Girls' Lives; With Illustrations by J. E. Millais. Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1864. [10739]
Worn pebble cloth, spine sunned, edges frayed, 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. vi., 344 generally clean pp. The book was a bit shaken and we tightened up the spine/backstrip with some archival paste. Good. Hardcover.
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" ws 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.
