Portraits of Female Piety, looks at the lives of several eminent women in Puritan England, including Katherine Brettergh and Elizabeth Gouge. This compilation is an ideal gift for your wife, mother, sister, or daughter, and we hope and pray it will bless generations of ladies. In Sermons to Young Women (1766), Scottish Presbyterian minister James Fordyce (1720-1796) presses the virtues and duties required of young women. This work was mentioned in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, as a book that the clergyman Mr. Collins attempts to read aloud to the women of the Bennet household.
Portraits of Female Piety, looks at the lives of several eminent women in Puritan England, including Katherine Brettergh and Elizabeth Gouge. This compilation is an ideal gift for your wife, mother, sister, or daughter, and we hope and pray it will bless generations of ladies. In Sermons to Young Women (1766), Scottish Presbyterian minister James Fordyce (1720-1796) presses the virtues and duties required of young women. This work was mentioned in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, as a book that the clergyman Mr. Collins attempts to read aloud to the women of the Bennet household.