The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven
Dublin Core
Title
The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven
Subject
Women
United States -- Social life and customs
United States -- Social life and customs
Description
Aimed primarily at women, this collection is a monograph collection of popular advice literature. Books cover topics from cooking and cleaning to marriage and birth control. Many of the titles are manuals that offer guidelines for self-improvement. The collection demonstrates how self-improvement advice has been redefined to meet the needs of popular culture.
Source
Mother Home and Heaven
Contributor
Josephine Wishart Hayford and Harrison Hayford in memory of, Josephine Long Wishart
Relation
Mother Home and Heaven Related Works
Language
eng
Collection Items
Common Sense in the Household
A guide written by a woman for women working in the household. Most of the book consists of recipes but there is also several sections on keeping a clean house.
Social Culture: An up-to-Date Book for Polite Society, Containing Rules for Conduct in Public, Social and Private Life, at Home and Abroad
A green, decorated guidebook that gives advice to men, women, and children on conducting themselves in their public and private lives
Purity and Truth Self and Sex Series: What a Woman of Forty-Five Ought to Know
A small red advice book for middle-aged women on appropriate conduct, health practices, and relationships for a woman of about forty-five
Adopting an Abandoned Farm
This small book with a pastoral scene on the cover contains a series of autobiographical essays by Kate Sanborn who describes her two years spent living on and managing her own farm and gives advice to those looking to do the same.
Book: "Fighting Modern Evils That Destroy Our Homes"
![Book: "Fighting Modern Evils That Destroy Our Homes"](https://www.motherhomeheaven.ohio5.org/files/square_thumbnails/c27e6292e1e4e3496f3bc58126da6549.jpg "Book: "Fighting Modern Evils That Destroy Our Homes"")
A small green book that discusses marriage and divorce in the context of the early twentieth century.
1895 Guidebook, Talks Upon Practical Subjects
This is a small, green, hardcover, book. It is intended to provide instruction for women on how to care for one’s body.
What a Young Woman Ought to Know - Religion
This small guidebook addresses young women’s questions regarding their bodies, their minds, and their futures.