How to Be a Lady: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Be a Lady, credited to Harvey Newcomb, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of How to Be a Lady by Harvey Newcomb. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "Preface! I never read a preface, it's so prosy" said a bright-eyed, sprightly little girl; "I want to get at the story." Her object in reading was to be amused. If she had desired to be benefited by what she read, she would have perused the Author's preface, in order to understand why he wrote the book. The "Young Lady's Guide" was intended for a class of female , who have attained some degree of maturity of character, and who are supposed already to have entered upon a religious life. The success of that work has led the Author, for several years, to contemplate the preparation of another, for a younger class of females. Having daughters of his own, and having been many years employed in writing for the young, he hopes to be able to offer some good advice, in the following pages, in an entertaining way, for girls or misses, between the ages of eight and fifteen. His object is, to assist them in forming their characters upon the best model; that they may become well-bred, intelligent, refined, and good; and then they will be ladies, in the highest sense. This book covers substantially the same ground occupied by another work for boys, issued simultaneously with it. Some parts of both are identical; while other parts are entirely different. If it shall be the means of benefiting one immortal mind, the Author will be abundantly rewarded. (Summary from the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Be a Lady
• Author credits: Harvey Newcomb
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:25:11

Catalogue topics

• youth
• childhood
• girls
• sisters
• young women
• conduct of life

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - On Childhood and Youth — 6:58
2. 02 - Nature and Objects of Education — 7:18
3. 03 - Piety, as the Spring of Action and Regulator of the Soul — 9:31
4. 04 - Filial Piety — 17:00
5. 05 - Treatment of Brothers and Sisters and Others in the Family — 12:25
6. 06 - Behavior at School — 10:28
7. 07 - Behavior at Table — 7:34
8. 08 - Behavior at Family Worship — 4:06
9. 09 - Private Prayer — 7:23
10. 10 - Keeping the Sabbath — 37:12
11. 11 - Habits — 24:10
12. 12 - Education of the Body — 15:00
13. 13 - Knowledge of Household Affairs — 15:24
14. 14 - Education of the Heart — 34:11
15. 15 - Education of the Mind — 13:36
16. 16 - Reading — 8:57
17. 17 - Writing — 4:35
18. 18 - Indolence — 5:22
19. 19 - On Doing One Thing at a Time — 3:21
20. 20 - On Finishing What is Begun — 3:03
21. 21 - Choice of Society and Formation of Friendships — 5:53
22. 22 - Ornamental Education — 8:01
23. 23 - On Amusements — 15:39
24. 24 - Government of the Tongue — 10:24

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