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Girls: Faults and Ideals. A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters.
Girls: Faults and Ideals. A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters.

Girls: Faults and Ideals. A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters.

Speak sincerely…


Late Victorian advice book for young women with hand-painted celluloid covers depicting a spray of clover. The author, Presbyterian clergyman J.R. Miller, urges his female readers to avoid common faults and to be modest in dress, to avoid frivolity, speak sincerely, be careful of their good name.

The advice dispensed here is drawn in part from letters written by young men, letters solicited by the author and in reply to such questions as “What are some of the most common faults in young women of your acquaintance?” and “What are some of the essential elements of character in your ideal of true young womanhood?”

A year after writing this book, Miller wrote Young Men: Faults and Ideals, a similar advice book, but containing quotations from girls’ letters. That seems fair.


Description: Girls: Faults and Ideals. A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters.

New York: Thomas Y.Crowell & Co. (1892). Fifteenth Thousand. 28pp. Booklet. 7¼ x 5 inches. Hand-painted, flexible celluloid wrappers with scalloped edges; cord tied (recently supplied); all edges gilt. Minor wear at tail of spine and at lower cord tie; very good.

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