- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 84 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Uniform Title
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Subject
- Note
- Work of fiction.
- Attributed to Lemuel Gulliver.
- Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
- Contents
- Book I. The Consent is given, the Time appointed, the Marriage solemniz'd, and Wedding kept -- Book II. Madam goes to buy Houshold-Furniture; the Ingratitude of some of the Wedding-Guests, and Thankfulness of others; with other no less entertaining Particulars -- Book III. Our young Couple walk abroad; are courteously treated by all their Acquaintance; with their Journey into the Country for Pleasure; and other Things of great Importance to Know -- Book IV. The buxom Dame gossips with her Neighbours, complains she is not with Child, consults the Doctor, is order'd Physick, with other Matters too engaging to be overlook'd -- Book V. Joyful News, Madame proves with Child, and longs; with the Pleasures that attend both Also some remarkable Accidents, not taken Notice of by any other Author -- Book VI. Childbed Linen is to be provided; the Care of the Infant; Choice of a Midwife and Nurse; vastly important as well to the Husband as his Spouse and Child -- Book VII. The good Woman falls in Labour; with various other entertaining Concomitents -- Book VIII. The good Woman is delivered; the Beauty of the Child; the instructive, and delightful Tales of the Gossips; and the extravagant Raptures of the Husband, &c. -- Book IX. The Child is christen'd; the Feast provided for the Gossips, the true Stories they relate, very delightful to read, and instructive to remember -- Book X. The Child is coated; a Feast upon the same, very wonderful to be related.
- OCLC
- Author
Gulliver, Lemuel (Surgeon), author.
- Title
The pleasures of marriage, in ten books : containing a copious display of what the ensuing lines are an abstract ... with stories more profuse, young master's coating, Madam's genius shews / by Lemuel Gulliver.
- Publisher
London : J. Robinson, 1745.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
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