The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.

Title

The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.

Author

Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.

Publication

London :: printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry,

1673.

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Home economics -- Early works to 1800.

Cookery -- Early works to 1800.

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"The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66844.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To all Young Ladies, Gentle∣women, and all Maidens whatever.
• THE TABLE
• THE Introduction.
  • The duty and qualifications of a Governess to Gentlemens Children.
  • A Short account of the life and abilities of the Authoress of this Book.
  • Good Instructions for a young Gentlewoman, from the age of Six to Sixteen.
  • Advice to the Female younger sort.
  • The duty of Children to their Parents.
  • Of a young Gentlewomans deportment to her Go∣verness and Servants in the Family.
  • What qualifications best become and are most suitable to a Gentlewoman.
  • Of a Gentlewomans civil Behaviour to all sorts of people in all places.
  • Of the Gait or Gesture.
  • Of the Government of the Eye.
  • Of Speech and Complement.
  • Choice and general Rules for a Gentlewomans observation in Conversation with Company.
  • Rules to be observed in walking with Persons of Honour; and how you ought to behave your self in congratulating and condoling them.
  • Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof. Of Fashions, and their ridiculous apish imitation.
  • Of New Fashions.
  • Some choice Observations for a Gentlewomans Behaviour at Table.
  • Rules for a Gentlewomans Behaviour at a Ball.
  • Rules to be observed by a Gentlewoman in Vocal and Instrumental Musick.
  • Of wanton Songs, and idle Ballads.
  • Of the Vanities some young Ladies and Gentle∣women are too prone to prosecute.
  • Of a young Gentlewoman's fit hours and times for their Recreation and Pleasure, and how to go∣vern themselves therein.
  • What Recreations and Pleasures are most fitting and proper for young Gentlewomen.
  • Of the guidance of a Ladies love and fancy.
  • The Gentlewomans Mirrour, or Patterns for their imitation of such famous Women who have been eminent in Piety and Learning.
  • Of Marriage, and the duty of a Wife to her Husband.
  • Of Womens behaviour to their Servants, and what is to be required of them in the house, or what thereunto appertains.
  • Terms for Carving all sorts of Meat at Table.
  • Quaint Directions for the Carving all manner of FOWL.
    • Artichoaks Fried.
    • Artichoaks Stewed.
    • An Almond-Pudding.
    • An Almond-Pudding in Guts.
    • An Almond-Tart.
    • Almond-Cream.
    • Apple Cream.
    • Apricocks green Baked.
    • Barley-Broth.
    • BISK.
    • Beef hashed.
    • Beef A-la-mode.
    • Beef Carbonadoed.
    • Beef baked, red-Deer-fashion, in Pies or Pasties, either Surloine, Brisket, Buttock or Fillet, larded or not.
    • Beef Collar'd.
    • Brawn, how to make a Collar.
    • Brawn made of a Sucking-Pig, otherwise called souced Pig.
    • A Calves-head roasted.
    • Calves-foot Pye, or Neats-foot Pye.
    • Capons Souced.
    • Calves-Chaldron-Mince-Pyes.
    • Capon or Chicken in white Broth.
    • Chicken-Pye.
    • Clouted Cream.
    • Cabbedg-Cream.
    • Carp Stewed.
    • Carp Marinated.
    • Carp roasted.
    • Deer, Red and Fallow, roasted.
    • Deer Baked.
    • Egg-Mince-Pye.
    • Florentines on Paste, or without Paste.
    • Flowers of all sorts Pickled.
    • Grapes and Goosberries Pickled.
    • Geese Boiled.
    • Hashes several ways.
    • Otherways.
    • Hashes of Neats-feet, or any feet, as Calves, Sheep, Deer, Hogs, Pigs or Lambs.
    • Hashing of any Feet.
    • Hares roasted without and with the Skin.
    • Ipocras.
    • Jellies of several colours for all sorts of Soust Meats, and to be eaten alone.
    • Land or Sea-fowl, how to boil them.
    • Land-Fowl, the smaller sort, how to boil, as Plovers, Quails, Blackbirds, Rails, Thrushes, Snites, Wheat-ears, Larks and Sparrows.
    • Marrow-Pudding in a Dish baked, garnished with Puff-paste.
    • Mutton hashed the French way.
    • Marinated Mullet, Bace, Gurnet, or Rochet.
    • Mallets Fried.
    • Mullets or Bace baked.
    • Mushrooms Fried.
    • Mushrooms stewed.
    • Neats-Tongues boiled.
    • Neats-tongues Stewed.
    • Neats-tongues, an excellent way how to dry them.
    • Neats-tongues roasted.
    • Neats-tongue-Minc'd-Pye.
    • A Norfolk-Fool.
    • Oysters Stewed.
    • Oysters Fried.
    • Oyster-Pyes.
    • Otherways.
    • Oysters Pickled.
    • Ox-cheeks baked in a Pye.
    • A Calves-head Pye.
    • Puff-paste, the best way how to make it.
    • Panado's.
    • Posset of Sack, Claret, or White-wine, the best manner.
    • Pumpion-Pye.
    • Pig roasted with the Hair on.
    • Pidgeons boiled.
    • Pike boiled.
    • Pike stewed.
    • Pike Souc'd.
    • Pike Roasted.
    • Quaking-Pudding.
    • Quince-Pyes.
    • An excellent restorative for a weak back.
    • A most incomparable broth or drink for a sick person.
    • Rice-Tart.
    • Rice-Cream.
    • Another excellent and rare Cream.
    • Several excellent Sawces for several Dishes, and first for green-Geese.
    • An excellent way to roast Salmon.
    • Salmon Fried.
    • Soust Veal, Lamb, or any joint of Mutton, Kid, Fawn or Venison.
    • Taffety Tart.
    • Venison how to recover when tainted.
    • To make Beef, Ram, or Mutton pass for Venison.
    • Warden-Tarts.
• A Bill of Fare of Suitable Meat for every Month in the Year.
  • Bills of Fare for fasting days or Lent; Out of these following Dishes you may compose what Messes you please of several sorts and kinds.
• An Introduction to Physick and Chyrurgery.
  • What is to be observed by a Gentlewoman before she undertakes the administration of Physick.
• Choice and Experimental Observations in Physick and Chyrurgery, such which rarely fail'd any who made trial there∣of.
  • A most approved Receipt for a Quartane Ague.
  • For a sudden and violent bleeding at the nose.
  • To stop the Bleeding of a Wound.
  • An approved Medicine of London-Midwives to break and heal Womens sore breasts.
  • An excellent way to dry up a Womans breast.
  • An infallible receipt to increase milk in Womens breasts.
  • Against a Stinking-breath.
  • For a Cancer in a Womans Breast.
  • For young Children who by reason of the weak∣ness of their Limbs can neither stand nor go.
  • An approved China-broth for a Consumption.
  • A most excellent Jelly for the Consumption.
  • An excellent Comforter of the Stomach, and helper of Digestion.
  • A well-tried Medicine for the Corns on the Feet or Toes.
  • An excellent Diet-drink for the Spring to purge the Blood, and cleanse it.
  • A Remedy for the Dropsie, whether hot or cold.
  • Another for the Dropsie, which hath cured many a Person when they were left and forsaken by Physicians.
  • For the Web or Pin in the Eye.
  • To cleanse the skin of the face, and make it look heautiful and fair.
  • How to ripen and heal a Felon or Whitclof.
  • How to cure the bloody Flux.
  • A Cure for every sort of Gout.
  • How to cure the Green-Sickness.
  • An Universal Medicine of wonderful use both for Man and Woman.
  • An admirable Remedy against the yellow Jaundies.
  • Against the Itch.
  • Against Kibed Heels a certain Remedy.
  • What is best to be administred to one sick of the Measels.
  • To cure the Fits of the Mother.
  • To take away the Heat of a Burn or Scald.
  • For a Scald-head.
  • A very good receipt for one hurt with Gun-powder.
  • A very safe Clister to be used by-either Man or Woman, who is much bound or costive.
  • How to cure old Sores on the Legs, which have been of so long standing that the Bones have ap∣peared.
  • An excellent way to dissolve the Stone.
  • A way not only to prevent but to cure the Tooth-ach, or to make an aking-Tooth fall out of it self.
  • How to order a Woman with Child, before, in, and after her Delivery.
  • An excellent Cordial for Women troubled with Swooning-fits in Travel.
• part
  • And first of Candying, Conserving and Preserving.
  • How to preserve Barberries.
  • Pears Preserved.
  • Green Pippins Preserved.
  • Black Cherries Preserved.
  • Mulberries Preserved.
  • Oranges and Lemons Preserved.
  • Goosberries Preserved.
  • Preserved Roses, or any other Flowers.
  • Cherries Preserved.
  • Apricocks Preserved.
  • Green Walnuts Preserv'd.
  • Eringo-roots Preserv'd.
  • Ennula-Campana-roots Preserved.
  • Conserve of Roses.
  • How to Candy all sorts of Flowers as they grow with their stalks on.
  • Candyed Eringo-roots.
  • The best and most approved way to dry Plumbs.
  • Proper Colours for Fruitage.
  • Quince Marmelade.
  • How to make Syrrup of Violets.
  • Syrrup of Roses.
  • Syrrup of Coltsfoot.
• Of DISTILLATION.
  • Dr. Stevens his famous Water.
  • Aqua Mirabilis.
  • A most approved Water for the Eyes.
  • An admirable Water against the Stone in the Kidneys.
  • An excellent Water for the Worms.
  • An excellent artificial Wine like Claret, but much better, and by many degrees brisker.
  • An Ointment for any Wound or Sore.
  • A Searcloth for all Aches.
• What things belong to a Country-Gentlewoman: Of Dayries, and making Butter and Cheese.
  • How to make your ordinary clouted-Cream.
  • To make fresh Cheese in Cream.
  • Cream of Codlins.
  • To make a Junket.
  • And first, to all Gentlewomen, who though well-born, are notwithstanding by indigency necessitated to serve some person of Quality.
  • To all Maidens who desire to be Chamber-Maids to persons of Quality.
  • Instructions for all Nursery-Maids in Noble Families.
  • Instructions for all Chamber-maids to Gentle∣women in City and Country.
  • Instructions for Nursery-Maids to Gentlewomen, both in London, or elsewhere.
  • Instructions for such who desire to be absolute Cook-maids in good and great houses.
  • Instructions for under-Cook-Maids.
  • Instructions for Dairy-Maids in great Houses.
  • Instructions for Laundry-Maids in great Houses.
  • Instructians for House-Maids in great Houses.
  • To Scullery-Maids in great Houses.
  • Some general and choice Rules for writing of Letters.
  • Of Intelligence or Advice.
  • Of Friend-chastisement.
  • Of giving good Counsel.
  • Of requesting a kindness.
  • Of Recommendation.
  • How elegantly to complain of injuries done.
  • Forms of Address or Visit.
  • Forms of Congratulation.
  • Of Consolation.
  • Form of thanks for Courtesies received.
• Letters upon all Occasions.
• Their Answers.
• letters
• Pleasaut Discourses and witty Dialogues be∣tween Males and Females, as well genti∣liz'd by Birth as accomplisht by generous Education.
  • The Resolute Lover: A Pastoral Dialogue.
  • Addresses of Love and Service, from Erotus to Aurelia.
  • A merry Dialogue between an ingenious Gen∣tlewoman and a Poetaster or Rimer.
  • A form of Discourse at a casual meeting between Silvester and Sylvia.
  • A method of Courtship on fair and honourable terms.
  • An impertinent and lying Travellers Discourse with his witty and Jocose Mistress.
  • A Gentleman accidentally hapning into a room where a Company of Ladies were well known to him.
• BOOKS sold by Dorman Newman at the King's-Arms and Bible in the Poultry.
  • Folio.
  • Quarto.
  • Small Octavo.
  • Octavo and Twelve.