Parenthood & Family

Raising children, keeping house and arguing about both — the manuals, the diaries and the reformers, from Defoe’s century to the age of the child-study movement.

• A Treatise on Domestic Economy Catharine E. Beecher
• The Book of Household Management Isabella Beeton
• The Renewal of Life Margaret Warner Morley
• The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Various
• Child and Country Will Levington Comfort
• Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook Maria Montessori
• Home Education Charlotte M. Mason
• Educating by Story-Telling Katherine Dunlap Cather
• Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall
• Married Love Marie Stopes
• How to be Happy Though Married E. J. Hardy
• The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Child
• Colored Girls and Boys’ Inspiring United States History William Henry Harrison Jr.
• The Mothercraft Manual Mary L. Read
• Parents and Children Charlotte M. Mason
• The Golden Gems of Life S. C. Ferguson & E. A. Allen
• Indian Boyhood Charles A. Eastman
• Letters to His Children Theodore Roosevelt
• The Care and Feeding of Children L. Emmett Holt
• The American Woman’s Home Catharine E. Beecher & Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Boy Wanted Nixon Waterman
• Domestic Medicine William Buchan
• A Treatise on Parents and Children Bernard Shaw
• Home Occupations for Boys and Girls Bertha Johnston
• Housekeeping Elizabeth Hale Gilman
• How to Pick a Mate Clifford R. Adams & Vance Packard
• Behind the Scenes Elizabeth Keckley
• Personal Hygiene and Physical Training for Women Anna M. Galbraith
• The Historical Child Oscar Chrisman
• The University of Hard Knocks Ralph Parlette
• Work and Play in Girls’ Schools Lucy Soulsby & Jane Dove Dorothea Beale
• The Sex Side of Life Mary Ware Dennett
• The Child in Human Progress George Henry Payne
• Advice to Young Men William Cobbett
• Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside Caroline L. Smith
• Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian Philip Vickers Fithian
• The Book of Nature James Ashton
• The Christian Home Samuel Philips
• The Moral Instruction of Children Felix Adler
• The Superstition of Divorce G. K. Chesterton
• A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Harvey Newcomb
• Youth and Sex Mary Scharlieb & Frederick Arthur Sibly
• Don’t Marry James W. Donovan
• Advice to a Wife and Mother Pye Henry Chavasse
• Vesper Talks to Girls Laura A. Knott
• Diary of Anna Green Winslow Anna Green Winslow
• Making the House a Home Edgar A. Guest
• The Minister and the Boy Allan Hoben
• The Secret of a Happy Home Marion Harland
• The Matron’s Manual of Midwifery Frederick Hollick
• A Memoir of Robert Blincoe John Brown
• Mother, Nurse and Infant S. P. Sackett
• When They Were Girls Rebecca Deming Moore
• Gentle Measures in the Training of the Young Jacob Abbott
• The Hive Will Levington Comfort
• Dorothy Dix — Her Book Dorothy Dix
• Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers Eunice White Beecher
• From Kitchen to Garret J. E. Panton
• With the Children on Sundays Sylvanus Stall
• The Complete Home Clara E. Laughlin
• What a Young Husband Ought to Know Sylvanus Stall
• College Men Without Money Carl B. Riddle
• The Wedding Guest T. S. Arthur
• Wings and the Child E. Nesbit
• The Child Under Eight E. R. Murray & Henrietta Brown Smith
• Concerning Children Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Cheating the Junk-Pile Ethel R. Peyser
• School-days in 1800 Lucy Ellen Guernsey
• Happiness and Marriage Elizabeth Towne
• The Power of Womanhood Ellice Hopkins
• The Art of Courtship Clement Wood
• The Lady’s Country Companion Jane Loudon
• Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects Henry N. Guernsey
• Good Form and Christian Etiquette S. M. I. Henry
• Household Administration Alice Ravenhill & Catherine J. Schiff
• A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge Alice Gardner
• The Mother’s Book Lydia Maria Child
• The Elements of Child-Protection Sigmund Engel
• Farm Boys and Girls William A. McKeever
• Hints on Child-Training H. Clay Trumbull
• A Montessori Mother Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Floor Games H. G. Wells
• The Hearth-Stone Samuel Osgood
• The Value of a Praying Mother Isabel C. Byrum
• Herself: Talks with Women Concerning Themselves E. B. Lowry
• The Unfolding Life Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
• On the Training of Parents Ernest Hamlin Abbott
• The Young Mother William A. Alcott
• The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
• The Young Lady’s Mentor Anonymous
• Guide to the Kindergarten Elizabeth Palmer Peabody & Mary Mann
• The Feeding of School Children M. E. Bulkley
• Psychology and Parenthood H. Addington Bruce
• The Art of Story-Telling Julia Darrow Cowles
• Sweethearts at Home S. R. Crockett
• Froebel’s Gifts Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith
• Essays for Young Ladies Hannah More
• School-life at Winchester College Robert B. Mansfield
• A Book of Medical Discourses Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• The American Child Elizabeth McCracken
• The Prospective Mother J. Morris Slemons
• Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper T. S. Arthur
• Conception Control Florence E. Barrett
• Safe Marriage: A Return to Sanity Ettie Rout
• Almost a Man Mary Wood-Allen
• The Confessions of a Daddy Ellis Parker Butler
• Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller
• A Girl’s Student Days and After Jeannette Marks
• The Mother’s Manual of Children’s Diseases Charles West
• Advice to Young Men and Boys B. B. Comegys
• Getting Ready to Be a Mother Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom
• Tokology Alice B. Stockham
• Household Education Harriet Martineau
• Five Young Men Charles Reynolds Brown
• Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College Charles F. Thwing
• The Young Woman’s Guide William A. Alcott
• The Child at Home John S. C. Abbott
• Study of Child Life Marion Foster Washburne
• Your Boy and His Training Edwin Puller
• An Essay on the Government of Children James Nelson
• The Story of a Child Pierre Loti
• Folly as It Flies Fanny Fern
• Household Organization Florence Caddy
• Memories of Childhood’s Slavery Days Annie L. Burton
• The Four Epochs of Woman’s Life Anna M. Galbraith
• Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg
• The Colored Girl Beautiful E. Azalia Hackley
• Family Limitation Margaret Sanger
• What Every Girl Should Know Margaret Sanger
• Nooks and Corners J. E. Panton
• Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness John Mather Austin
• The Physical Training of Children Pye Henry Chavasse
• Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
• Better Babies and Their Care Anna Steese Richardson
• Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework C. Hélène Barker
• Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees
• Talks to Freshman Girls Helen Dawes Brown
• Best Stories from the Best Book James Edson White
• My Boyhood John Burroughs
• A-B-C of Housekeeping Christine Terhune Herrick
• A Mother’s Year Book Francis McKinnon Morton and Mary McKinnon McSwain
• The Boy and the Sunday School John L. Alexander
• Letters to a Daughter Hubert Bland
• The Expert Maid-Servant Christine Terhune Herrick
• Bits about Home Matters Helen Hunt Jackson
• The Education of Children from the Standpoint of Theosophy Rudolf Steiner
• Children’s Rights Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Education of the Child Ellen Key
• Stray Thoughts for Girls L. H. M. Soulsby
• Confidences: Talks With a Young Girl E. B. Lowry