The Management of all Domestic Affairs is certainly the proper Business of Woman; and unfashionably rustic as such as Assertion may be thought, 'tis certainly not beneath the Dignity of any Lady, however high her rank, to know how educate her children, to govern her servants, to order an elegant Table with Oeconomy, and to manage her whole family with Prudence, Regularity and method.
Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother's ADvice to Her Absent Daughters, 1761
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