MAGASIN OU INSTRUCTIONS POUR LES JEUNES DAMES.; qui entrent dans le monde et se marient leurs devoirs dans cet etat et envers leurs enfants Pour servir de suite au Magasin des Adolescents. Edition faite sous les Yeux de l'Auteur, sur un Nouveau Manuscript Plus Correct & Plus Ample Que Celui de l'Edition de Londres

Lyon: Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthys, 1782. The half titles read: "Bibliotgeque Complete d'Education. Magasin des Jeunes Dames.. 12mo, pp. xvi,339,(5); (4), 394; (4) 176; (4) 256. 4 volumes bound in 3. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, with spine labels. A very nice copy. Scarce, not in NUC or BL. This edition was made under the direction of the author from her mss that was issued in London. Madame Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a popular novelist and prolific writer of educational works for women and children ... which were widely read throughout Europe and America between 1750 to 1830. She taught at a convent school for teachers in Rouen and when her unhappy marriage was annulled she turned to writing to support herself. In 1748 she wrote a work arguing that women's natural qualities are superior to men's. Shorty afterwards, she settled in London where she established herself as a goveneress and started a monthly magazine: Nouveau Magasin Francais aimed at women.. "She was the first editor of a woman's monthly magazine, the founder of children's literature in France, and an indefatigable promoter of women's equal right to learning"[Wilson, p. 100]. (Inventory #: 56361)