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ENGLISH. The English Matron. By the author of 'The English Gentlewoman'. FIRST EDITION. Henry Colburn. 1846
24pp cata. New e.ps. Uncut in orig. cream cloth at some time re-backed retaining orig. spine strip; a little dulled & marked. A sound sound copy only.

¶Advice on marriage & domestic management including a chapter on temper: '... the control of this is essential to the peace of married life'. 'It may be censured as uncharitable to my own sex, when I declare that I have ever found that two-thirds of the marriages usually deemed unhappy become so from the want of command of temper in women.'
Stock #40564
£45


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