The friendly instructor: Or, A companion for young ladies and young gentlemen. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.

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Title The friendly instructor: Or, A companion for young ladies and young gentlemen. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.
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Signed Author By a lady.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 65
Date of Publication 1809
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Imprint Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhilll. Who keep for sale, a great variety of cheap religious tracts. The charitable, resident in any part of the Union, who purchase for distribution, will find their orders answered promptly, and on the most liberal terms.
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Location of Printing Boston US
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Length (cm) 15
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Non-UK Price US$0.12
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"I have perused these dialogues with so much pleasure ... they were written by a lady with whose valuable character I have been acquainted many years; and who has been long employed in the education of children ..."--The recommendatory preface, p. [iii], signed: P. Doddridge. Northampton, June 8, 1741.
Tentatively attributed to English religious writer Elizabeth Harrison.
Caption title: Familiar dialogues.
"Divine song. The advantages of early religion."--poem by Isaac Watts, p. [66].
"Cheap religious tracts, for sale by Lincoln & Edmands ..."--advertisement, p. [67-72].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of the family of d'Alté A. Welch. Inscribed: Betsey Stedman.
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Harrison, Elizabeth. The friendly instructor: Or, A companion for young ladies and young gentlemen. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17768, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17768. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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