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So for work (I do research for a professor who specializes in Victorian lit), I'm currently reading Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, and I have to say, I'm surprised no one in fundamentalist circles has reprinted this book yet. For Austen fans, it's the one that Mr. Collins chooses to read to his cousins and yes, it is as horrible as Lydia makes it out to be. But it's the same ideas that a lot of them spout, only it was written in 1766

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Going to Google this now...

Edited to say I can't really find it online to read, though I did find a few paragraphs quoted. From what I've read, I agree that it is hard to see why the fundy's haven't latched onto this one. Seriously disagreeable stuff for the rest of us. Fordyce's sermons has an FB community page. 8 people like it.

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Google books has it!

(volume 1, 1814 version): http://books.google.com/books?id=EPvotQ ... &q&f=false

(volume 2j, 1767 version): http://books.google.com/books?id=UZk9AA ... &q&f=false (An orthographic change in the use of a certain character for the letter s occurred after the US Revolutionary war, you may have difficulty reading this if you don't keep that in mind.)

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