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| | Lessons for a Woman presented in Culture section |
 | | She married at the age of 14, thereby becoming the lowest-ranking member of her husband’s family, and bore children. |
 | | Among her many literary works, Ban Zhao composed a commentary on the popular Lives of Admirable Women by Liu Kiang (77- 6 BC) and later in life produced her most famous work, the N? Jie, or Lessons for Women, which purports to be an instructional manual on feminine behaviour and virtue for her daughters. |
 | | I, the unworthy writer, am unsophisticated, unenlightened, and by nature unintelligent, but I am fortunate both to have received not a little favour from my scholarly Father, and to have had a cultured mother and instructresses upon whom to rely for a literary education as well as for training in good manners. |
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