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Home Whispers. To Husbands and Wives.
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“Let us bend our ear attentively and catch, if we can, the key-note of over-burthened womanhood’s song…” pens the author. A didactic, moralizing narrative of domestic life, gender duty, and sentimental piety. Written under the pseudonym “Melva,” the text is structured in two parts: one addressed to husbands and fathers, the other to wives and mothers. Each section is composed of anecdotal sketches and fictionalized portraits designed to instruct, caution, and elevate domestic virtue within a mid-19th-century evangelical framework.
Description: Home Whispers. To Husbands and Wives.
New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1859. Second Edition. 338, 2, 8pp. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped gilt decorations, all edges gilt. Wear to board edges, cloth along joints, head and tail of spine; good only.
[3735025]Price: $45.00