This exhibit explores the stories of women who did not conform to the pressures placed on middle and upper-middle class...
Aimed primarily at women, this collection is a monograph collection of popular advice literature. Books cover topics from cooking and cleaning to…
Annie Randall White’s book is one of many popular etiquette manuals published during the Progressive Era that expounds on the appropriate behavior for…
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This is Chapter 11 in the book Twentieth Century Etiquette. It explains the roles young women and young men can have when entering society in the…
L. Maria Child published, Biographies of Good Wives, for both the husbands of ‘good’ wives and aspiring ‘good’ wives in 1846. This collection of…
A portrait of Lydia Maria Child