Mary Johnson, Madam Johnson's Present (1755)
Date
1755
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
AN ACCURATE tho' COMPENDIOUS ENGLISH SPELLING DICTIONARY, Peculiarly calculated for the SERVICE of the present Undertaking
Book title
Madam Johnson's present; or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry pursuant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published
Publication place
London
Publisher
M. Cooper and C. Sympson
Transcription source
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Text type
printed book
Genre
Spelling
Subject area
- education
- household
- spelling
- women
Language
headwords: English
No explanation
No explanation
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 5492
sample: marriageable
number: 5492
sample: marriageable
STC
T106312
