Half tan calf. Tan marbled boards. Red title plate with Gilt lettering banding and star design on the spine.

“The Female Aegis. outlines for its young female readership the three areas in which “the influence of the female character is most important”: 1) In contributing daily and hourly to the comfort of husbands, of parents, of brothers and sisters.in the intercourse of domestic life, under every vicissitude of sickness and health, of joy and affliction. 2) IN forming and improving the general manners, disposition, and conduct of the other sex, by society and example. 3) In modelling the human mind during the early stages of its growth, and fixing, while it is still ductile, its growing principle of action. The text advocates a kind of educational reform for young women, “drawing forth the reasoning power of girls into action” through their instruction in “geography, natural history, portions of general history, and popular facts in astronomy, and in other sciences” –