Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter, Volume One


Leído por Anne Fletcher

(5 stars; 1 reviews)

The extended title of these volumes is 'Inculcating Morality by Entertaining Narratives”, and in the preface the Author indicates she offered them for approval to a friend who required works for girls aged twelve to seventeen that were not “too serious nor too childish....a mirror of truth and nature in which my girls may see themselves without danger to their native simplicity and without checking too harshly their natural curiosity and fancy.”
By using examples supposedly from her own experience,“ Mrs Palmerstone” provides her daughter with the moral advice thought necessary to help develop the character of a young lady , but it is never overly sweetened...the keen observation and sometimes gently biting wit of Mrs Palmerstone would not be amiss in a character from Miss Jane Austen herself. (Summary by Anne Fletcher) (4 hr 37 min)

Capítulos

Preface 9:34 Leído por Anne Fletcher
The Spoiled Child or The History of Miss Webster 34:10 Leído por Anne Fletcher
Maria Mortimer, or The Fatal Effects of Curiosity 42:02 Leído por Anne Fletcher
The Influence of Bad Example; or the History of Miss Sable 39:49 Leído por Anne Fletcher
Beauty and Ugliness;or the Sick Child 43:20 Leído por Anne Fletcher
Family Discord; or the History of Edward and Henry 55:39 Leído por Anne Fletcher
The Ball; or The History of Miss Crosby 52:37 Leído por Anne Fletcher

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(5 stars)

I loved this book and the reader read it perfectly!