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- Collection: The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven
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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.
Talks Upon Practical Subjects
A manual written by a woman for women to assist in everyday tasks.
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.