Advice to the Ladies in the Choice of a Husband [...] The Lady and the 'Prentice Boy [...] A Hint to the Ladies.

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UNRECORDED. Not in ESTC. The American Antiquarian Society has a group of seven broadsides in an almost identical style, two of which have a John Evans imprint at West Smithfield and are dated between 1791-1792. (See for example “Wives sweethearts or, Saturday night,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed October 12, 2026, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/34 . In choice of a husband girls be not too nice What with Maning our ships and protecting our shores You cannot have lovers at once by the score Three separate broadside ballad sheets on the subject of women, courtship and marriage. 1.ADVICE TO THE LADIES IN THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND This broadside features an etching in an oval frame which shows three handsomely dressed women sat around a table in a parlour. Of the group, the woman pictured on the right is poised on her chair with her hands in a gesture of explication, across from her on the right is her audience; a girl with a book open in her lap and another with her sewing basket resting on the table. The text is printed as, A Favourite Song, Sung by Mrs. Wrighten at Vauxhall“ in the The Westminster Magazine Vol 8, 1780. The verse offers direct instruction to young women of marriageable age hoping to find a husband during a period of wartime, they are advised: “In choice of a husband girls be not too nice/ what with Maning our ships and protecting our shores/ you cannot have lovers at once by the score”. “Since love may not

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