# How to Be a Lady

An audiobook by Harvey Newcomb, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 25 min, English).

"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…

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## Chapters

1. On Childhood and Youth (6:58): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_01_newcomb_64kb.mp3
2. Nature and Objects of Education (7:18): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_02_newcomb_64kb.mp3
3. Piety, as the Spring of Action and Regulator of the Soul (9:31): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_03_newcomb_64kb.mp3
4. Filial Piety (17:00): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_04_newcomb_64kb.mp3
5. Treatment of Brothers and Sisters and Others in the Family (12:25): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_05_newcomb_64kb.mp3
6. Behavior at School (10:28): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_06_newcomb_64kb.mp3
7. Behavior at Table (7:34): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_07_newcomb_64kb.mp3
8. Behavior at Family Worship (4:06): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_08_newcomb_64kb.mp3
9. Private Prayer (7:23): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_09_newcomb_64kb.mp3
10. Keeping the Sabbath (37:12): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_10_newcomb_64kb.mp3
11. Habits (24:10): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_11_newcomb_64kb.mp3
12. Education of the Body (15:00): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_12_newcomb_64kb.mp3
13. Knowledge of Household Affairs (15:24): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_13_newcomb_64kb.mp3
14. Education of the Heart (34:11): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_14_newcomb_64kb.mp3
15. Education of the Mind (13:36): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_15_newcomb_64kb.mp3
16. Reading (8:57): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_16_newcomb_64kb.mp3
17. Writing (4:35): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_17_newcomb_64kb.mp3
18. Indolence (5:22): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_18_newcomb_64kb.mp3
19. On Doing One Thing at a Time (3:21): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_19_newcomb_64kb.mp3
20. On Finishing What is Begun (3:03): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_20_newcomb_64kb.mp3
21. Choice of Society and Formation of Friendships (5:53): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_21_newcomb_64kb.mp3
22. Ornamental Education (8:01): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_22_newcomb_64kb.mp3
23. On Amusements (15:39): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_23_newcomb_64kb.mp3
24. Government of the Tongue (10:24): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_24_newcomb_64kb.mp3
25. On the Art of agreeable and Profitable Conversation (14:22): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_25_newcomb_64kb.mp3
26. Inquisitiveness (3:44): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_26_newcomb_64kb.mp3
27. On the Importance of being able to say No (4:09): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_27_newcomb_64kb.mp3
28. On being Useful (4:37): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_28_newcomb_64kb.mp3
29. On being Contented (4:36): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_29_newcomb_64kb.mp3
30. Union of serious Piety with habitual Cheerfulness (6:12): https://archive.org/download/lady_2607_librivox/howtobealady_30_newcomb_64kb.mp3