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How to be a Good Wife - Hardcover

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9781851243815: How to be a Good Wife
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 185124381X ISBN 13: 9781851243815
Verlag: Bodleian Library, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane and timelessly true, for example:

It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up, when you have done the bulk of the day's work, don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavourably with the typist at the office.

Don't forget that a wife can always set the standard of behaviour for the home. If she allows laxities of dress or conversation at the table she will soon find that they become a fixed procedure.

Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him.

Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining and especially refrain from doing so before the servants.
After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage.

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The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains delightfully arcane and timelessly true advice: After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage.

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Verlag
Bodleian Library
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
185124381X
ISBN 13 
9781851243815
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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