Empress Maria Theresa and her large family

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I don't know if this has been mentioned in this thread, but there's an old Italian book about Empress Maria Theresa's advice to her daughters:

Arsenio Frugoni (ed.), Maria Teresa d'Austria. Consigli matrimoniali alle figlie sovrane, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1947.

This book had more editions in 1989 and 2000.

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In case this hasn't been mentioned, there's a very old edition of letters from empress Maria Theresa and emperor Joseph II to the marquise d'Herzelles, who was archduchess Maria Elisabeth's chief lady-in-waiting and afterwards governess of Joseph's daughter, archduchess Maria Theresa. It also includes a few letters from archduchess Maria Elisabeth to the marquise.

Joseph Marie Bruno Constantin, baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (ed.), Lettres inédites de Marie-Thérèse et de Joseph II (Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, collection in -8 °, 20), Bruxelles, Hayez, 1868.

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A very old edition of the correspondence of Archduchess Maria Christina with her brother, Emperor Leopold II, in the years 1781-1792 is available online:

https://archive.org/details/leopoldiiundmar00leopgoog