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Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 9MB (323 pages)
Year: (c1860) 2025
ISBN: 9781742226446
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

A fascinating book on what a young woman of the 1860s should know rules for conversation, advantages of industry, domestic economy, beauty, love and courtship, choosing a husband, female dress, rules for matrimonial happiness, duties of a married woman, the benefits of adversity, directing female servants, managing a family, marketing, cookery, and much more.

CHOICE OF A HUSBAND
On your conduct in the choice of a husband depends your future happiness or misery, at least in this world, if not in the next. Sobriety, prudence, and good-nature; a virtuous disposition, a good understanding, and a prospect of being above the reach of want, ought never to be dispensed with in this matter: where the man is defective in any of these, the woman is to be pitied. The man of pleasure is as much to be avoided as the illiterate clown; how agreeable soever he may appear to you ...

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2 Reviews

The Womans Companion
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Posted by wayne on 27th Aug 2025

I took liberty with this ebook being Free.
It was interesting reading of yesteryear and days gone by with the woman being the "yes, please and thank you's".
Like I said interesting!
The Young Woman's Companion. What an eye opener?
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Posted by Robyn A Duncan on 26th Aug 2025

Manners make the and the cexpectations of society were truly amazing. With the busy lifestyles young woman now lead with study, part-time jobs, involvement in sporting activities and families the 324 pages of this tome are almost impossible to take in.

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