Short domestic sketches on lost tempers, trouble with servants, a mother and her boy, and the small daily choices that make a household happy or miserable. Arthur frames each scene to teach self-denial and right conduct, especially the influence a mother holds over her children and a wife over her marriage.
Mid-nineteenth-century didactic fiction from the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, revealing of its era’s ideals of home. Download the free EPUB.