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ext_14357 ([identity profile] trifles.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rm 2006-08-13 05:49 pm (UTC)

While I don't know particular works (Beth would be a better source for such things), I do know places where they might be found. A cursory look at Cornell's Home Economics Archive brings up: The Happy Family, The Evolution of Marriage and the Family, The Art of Beauty, and Woman's Life in Colonial Days.

Meanwhile, on Project Gutenberg, there is a collection of plays (including "How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad" and "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage"), Our Deportment; or, THE MANNERS, CONDUCT AND DRESS
OF THE MOST REFINED SOCIETY; INCLUDING Forms for Letters, Invitations, Etc., Etc. Also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and Training
(perhaps a winner, there), and Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife.

Randomly, here is a page listing various Regency publications (which, if you went a-Googling, you could probably find issues scanned online with the original content, some of which must talk about the duties of wifeliness), Aristotle has this to say, and this article discusses the "240-page hardbound book given away to newlyweds just before the war," The Real Home Keeper: A Perpetual Honeymoon for the Vancouver Bride.

Whee.

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