Sarah Lady Pennington

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Standard Name: Pennington, Sarah,,, Lady
Birth Name: Sarah Moore
Used Form: S. Pennington
SLP published advice books covering the social and personal behaviour of young women, childraising, and running an extensive household. Her second book is epistolary, and covers philosophical, religious, and moral topics as well as incorporating a novel in instalments. She mixes her advice with personal history, also novelistic in tone, embodying defence of her own conduct around her marriage. This has a literary as well as a personal aim: to prevent her husband's repudiation from undermining her authority as a source of moral advice.

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Textual Features Mary Wollstonecraft
Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

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Pennington, Sarah, Lady. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington, 1761.
Pennington, Sarah, Lady. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington. The Fifth Edition, Corrected by the Author, J. Walter, 1770.
Gregory, John, and Sarah, Lady Pennington. “Introduction”. A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters [with] A Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, J. B. Dow, 1834, pp. 65-6.
Gregory, John, and Sarah, Lady Pennington. “Introduction”. A Father’s Legacy to his Daughters [with] A Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters, S. Andrus and Son, 1853, pp. 65-6.
Pennington, Sarah, Lady. Letters on Different Subjects. 1766, 4 vols.
Pennington, Sarah, Lady. The Child’s Conductor. James Phillips and J. Walter, 1777.