Tag: 19th century manners

• An Ideal Woman and Why We Hate Her

  “. . . she carried out her duties as mistress of a small family with ‘piety, patience, frugality and industry’. Moreover, ‘… her ardent and unceasing flow of spirits, extreme activity and diligence, her punctuality, uprightness and remarkable frugality, combined with a firm reliance on God … carried her through the severest times of pressure,…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 11, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Women, Writing

  19th century, 19th century manners, abortion, cult of womanhood, Feminism, Men, pro-choice, Relativism, sex, women, women’s rights

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  I bought this little book for research. What rules were ladies expected to follow in the 19th century? Admittedly, I fully expected to find it quaint and amusing. What I didn’t expect was how some of the chapters would lead me to question some of our accepted though crass behaviors of today. I didn’t expect…

  Adrienne Morris

  March 20, 2014

  Books I’ve Known and Loved

  19th century manners, 19th Century Sex, 19th Century Women, blogging, Books, Culture, Etiquette, Fashion, lifestyle, Manners, United States History, Victorian Manners, Writing