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In English literature: Chroniclers
…composed for his own daughter The Lady’s New-Year’s-Gift; or, Advice to a Daughter (1688), in which he anatomizes, with a somber but affectionate wit, the pitfalls awaiting a young gentlewoman in life, especially in marriage.
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