text:  I only consider it hard that the interests of the wives of England are to be exclusively studied when the unfortunate females who lack the consolations of matronhood are in so far greater want of sustainment; and that all the theories of the perfectionizement of the fair sex now issuing from the press should purport to instruct young ladies how to qualify themselves for wives and wives how to qualify themselves for heaven; and not a word addressed either in the way of exhortation remonstrance or applause to the highly respectable order of the female community whose cause I have taken on myself to advocate