Just a few resources listed. For more suggestions do a subject search for this subject heading: Women—conduct of life in MSU Libraries’ online catalog. You might also profit from browsing the shelves in the PR 428-429 area.
Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates. Edited by Frances Teague and Margaret J.M. Ezell. Toronto, Iter Academic Press and Tempe, AZ, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. Main LC 2052 .E48 2016
Hull, Suzanne W. Chaste, Silent, and Obedient, English Books for Women, 1475-1640. San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, c1982.Main PR 429 .W64 H8
Hull, Suzanne W. Women According to Men, the World of Tudor-Stuart Women. Walnut Creek, CA, AltaMira Press, c1996. Main PR 429 .W64 H87 1996
Murphy, Jessica C. Virtuous Necessity, Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, c2015. Main PR 428 .W63 M87 2015
Widder, Agnes Haigh. “Choosing a Wife, Choosing a Husband: Advice from Eighteenth-Century Conduct Books.” Paper presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Midwest Section, Chicago, IL, October 16, 1997.