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['Not the same translation as the Works, 1752 translation.\r\n\r\nconcerning paratext:\r\n{Name of woman on title page}\r\n{Name of translator NOT on title page}\r\n\r\ni-viii Life of Marchioness de Lambert (translated visibly from the same French text as used by the 1752 Works translator).\r\n\r\n1. Advice of a mother\r\n[text divided into "chapters"]\r\nOn female Education\r\n1. The world, in all ages, has been inattentive to the education of daughters; while vast care and attention have always been paid to the sons; and women have been neglected as if they were a species entirely of another order. Parents have not reflected that women compose one half of mankind; [...]\r\n3\r\nOf religion\r\n2. It is necessary, my child, to be attentive to the rules of decorum [...]\r\nsvdjun10chawton']
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