Note 801 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (continued 2)

Haywood, The Female Spectator (7th ed., London, 1771). This is a fairly representative compilation of gossip and literary anecdote regarding woman, but without a trace of sociological perception.

For examples of the lighter productions referred to see An Essay on Marriage, in a cautionary Epistle to a Young Gentleman, wherein the Artifices and Foibles of the Fair, etc. (London, 1750); The Deportment of a Married Life: Laid down in a Series of Letters ... to a Young Lady ... lately Married (2d ed., London, 1798; 3d ed., 1821); Boone, The Marriage Looking-Glass: written as a Manual for the Married and a Beacon to the Single (London, 1848); Guthrie, Wedded Love (London, 1859), a volume of sentimental verse. Some of them have a pious or theological tone: The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Married State ... under the Similitude of a Dream (5th ed., London, 1760); Conjugal Love and Duty (4th ed., Dublin and London, 1758); Reflections on Celibacy and Marriage, in Four Letters to a Friend (London, 1771); Sandeman, The Honour of Marriage opposed to all Impurities (London, 1777); Bean, The Christian Minister's Affectionate Advice to a New Married Couple (4th ed., London, 1809). Others contain valuable passages, while vividly reflecting the contemporary view regarding woman's inferior position: "Philogamus," The Present State of Matrimony (London, 1739); The Art of Governing a Wife; with Rules for Batchelors (London, 1747).