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title: 'Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1889-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Other Writings'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 31'
- 'Psalms 127'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1889-common-sense-in-the-household-a-manual-of-practical-housewifery
---

# Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

Marion Harland's Common Sense in the Household (1880) is a practical manual of housewifery—recipes, household management, and encouragement for homemakers.

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