Compiled as a gift for brides and bridegrooms, this miscellany mixes short didactic tales, poems and essays on the first years of married life: the evening before the wedding, the young housekeeper, the bride’s sister, the absent wife, the patience and forbearance two independent minds must learn. Its view of marriage is earnestly Christian and of its time.
A window onto mid-nineteenth-century American ideals of domestic life, from the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Download the free EPUB.