Letter starts: "As the propriety..."
Subsequent heading listed for letter (pages 175-179): "History and Present State of the Law Pertaining to Marriage." Promoting the Dissenting view that marriage should be a civil ceremony.

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Letter starts: "A member of my family ..."
Heading listed for letter on 2nd page: "Questions on the Marriage Ceremony"

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Letter to a Dissenting Minister's Wife
Letter from a father to his daughter on her marriage to a dissenting minister. Discusses marriage and wifely duty. Quotes Mary Wollstonecraft and her views on marriage as a positive example.

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Melancholy Case of Mary Ryan
The case of a poor woman imprisoned for trying to help her husband escape from Newgate. Her case resulted in a motion in the House of Commons for leniency under specific circumstances. Demonstrates c...

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The Death of Joanna Southcott
Listed in the "Obituary" section. An obituary of Joanna Southcott. Includes a synopsis of her prophecies and teachings and a description of her followers. Also documents her publications.

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Reasons for the Classical Education of Children of Both Sexes by John Morell.
Includes an analysis of Morell's stance that female children should be classically educated.

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Wives
Addresses the issue of the subjection of women in marriage and characterizes it as being unchristian and evidence of the degeneration of man. Response to an article on John Milton in the previous numb...

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