Truth About Female Criminals
Selections from the North American Review (Jan 1890): essays on free trade vs. protection, industrial science and social change, female criminality, and the misuse of alliteration.
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Truth About Female Criminals
House and Home: A Complete Housewife’s Guide
Comprehensive 1889 household guide by Marion Harland offering practical advice on housekeeping, family life, etiquette, menus, recipes, childrearing, and domestic economy.
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The Incapacity of Business Women
Two essays: one on divorce law’s impact on family stability; another arguing women are ill-suited for business due to social precedent and temperament, urging discipline and reform.
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Ministers’ Wives
An 1889 essay arguing that a minister's wife can greatly affect his public ministry—either helping or hindering—by social expectations and parish demands. It critiques unfair burdens placed on clergy wives.
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A Gallant Fight
Marion Harland's novel A Gallant Fight (1888) depicts Freehold society through Mrs. Phelps—her marriage, family life, and social tensions in a provincial New England town.
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Six Cups of Coffee: Prepared for the Public Palate by the Best Authorities on Coffee Making
Late-19th-century Good Housekeeping piece on coffee: selection, roasting, storage and six brewing methods, with period ads and testimonials for foods and tonics.
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Our Baby’s First and Second Years
Practical 19th-century infant-care guide: stresses warmth, breastfeeding, regular feeding, sleep, cleanliness, bathing, cautious diet, and avoidance of unnecessary medicines.
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A Modern Hero
Orphaned children in the Sierra gold fields mine to support their crippled father. Jim's wild youth, a lucky strike, and harsh lessons of survival and growing up.
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Common Sense in the Nursery
1885 practical guide to nursery care: critiques old-fashioned monthly nurses, praises trained nurses, and offers common-sense advice on infant feeding, bathing, sleep, and maternal recovery.
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Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia
Excerpt from Marion Harland's Judith: a chronicle of Old Virginia. Scenes of plantation family life, storytelling, and the panic during Gabriel's slave insurrection as women fortify the house.
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Eve’s Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
Victorian handbook by Marion Harland offering practical, common-sense advice on women's physical and mental education, motherhood, household duties, and raising girls.
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Handicapped
Marion Harland's 'Handicapped' excerpt follows a country minister and his wife coping with poverty, household labor, and sacrificial devotion amid pastoral duties and community life.
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Loiterings in Pleasant Paths
A travel-memoir excerpt by Marion Harland describing an American family's European pilgrimage for health, with vivid, anecdotal observations of London, its people, parks, and history.
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The Dinner Year-Book
Victorian domestic guide offering menu plans, kitchen-ware advice, thrift and household management for family dinners; urges orderly stewardship and prudent charity.
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My Little Love
Marion Harland's My Little Love follows a convalescent young woman in the country whose weary reflections are gently brightened by encounters with a wise, playful little girl.
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Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
Marion Harland's Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea offers practical essays on housekeeping, cookery, and domestic economy. It advocates skillful, cooperative household management and reflects on women's roles.
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From My Youth Up
OCR'd opening chapters of Marion Harland's novel 'From My Youth Up.' A child's recollection of Christmas morning in a small country church—sermon, sleepy congregation, and curious strangers.
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Jessamine: A Novel
Front matter for Marion Harland's collected novels (1877) followed by the opening chapters of Jessamine, a 19th-century domestic novel set in a rural American valley.
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