The Boarding School

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[FOSTER, Hannah Webster (1758-1840).] The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Perceptress to her Pupils: Consisting of Information, Instruction, and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners, and form the Character of Young Ladies. By a Lady of Massachusetts. Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1798.

First edition of Foster's second novel, in a contemporary binding, following The Coquette by a year. Like her previous work, The Boarding School was a didactic novel. Its description of a finishing school and its curriculum importantly documents late-18th-century female education. BAL 6242; Wright 984.

12mo (171 x 102mm). (Staining to prelims, some spotting, hinges cracked.). Contemporary sheep (rubbed, chipping to spine ends, a little worming to rear board touching rear flyleaf). Provenance: Hannah Weed (ownership signature to front endpaper, dated 1800).
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