Advice literature, typically aimed at middle-class women; practical instruction concerning proper behavior, belief, and appearance.
Our Deportment; or, The Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined Society, including Forms of Letters, Invitations, etc., etc., also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and Training
Historical Authors: Young, A.M., John H.
State: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Education, Gardening, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
Brownie Sandford; or, The Recovered Pearl
Historical Authors: May, Carrie L.
State: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct
Genres: Novel
Plain-Speaking
Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
State: Foreign
Keywords: Conduct, Health, Marriage, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Essays
Harry and Lucy, complete in three volumes
Historical Authors: Edgeworth, Maria
State: Foreign
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct, Education
Genres: Novel
Bits of Wisdom for Spare Moments
Historical Authors: Bucklin, J. W.
State: Rhode Island
Keywords: Conduct, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Essays
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
The American Girl’s Home Book of Work and Play
Historical Authors: Campbell, Helen
State: Pennsylvania
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
Good Manners
Historical Authors: Bolton, Sarah Knowles
State: Ohio
Keywords: Conduct
Genres: Advice Literature, Pamphlet
The Art of Beauty
Historical Authors: Haweis, Mary Eliza
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Education, Fine Arts, Reform
Genres: Textbook
Beauty in Dress
Historical Authors: Dewing, Maria Oakey
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Fine Arts, Reform
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
A Transplanted Rose: A Story of New York Society
Historical Authors: Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth Wilson
State: New York
Keywords: Bildungsroman, Conduct, Education, Marriage, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Letters to Country Girls
Historical Authors: Swisshelm, Jane Grey
State: Minnesota
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
Very Young Americans
Historical Authors: Ledyard, Laura W.
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct
Genres: Stories
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
School Days of Beulah Romney
Historical Authors: Eastman, Julia A.
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct, Education, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Novel
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
Through the Dark to the Day: A Story of Discipline
Historical Authors: Willing, Jennie Fowler
State: Illinois
Keywords: Conduct, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Novel, Religious Instruction
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
The Only Way Out
Historical Authors: Willing, Jennie Fowler
State: Illinois
Keywords: Conduct, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Reform
Genres: Novel, Religious Instruction
Stories of Home and Home Folks; or, Leaves from a Parsonage Portfolio
Historical Authors: Villars, Mary H.
State: Illinois
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Stories
Speech and Manners for Home and School
Historical Authors: Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury
State: Illinois
Keywords: Child Rearing, Children's Literature, Conduct, Education
Genres: Textbook
Home Treatment for Children with Lessons on Moral Training
Historical Authors: Trippe, M. W.
State: Illinois
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
Diamond Dust
Historical Authors: Willing, Jennie Fowler
State: Illinois
Keywords: Conduct, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Essays, Religious Instruction
Our Saints: A Family Story
Historical Authors: Porter, Rose
State: Connecticut
Keywords: Children's Literature, Conduct, Philosophy & Religion
Genres: Novel
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
Bits of Talk about Home Matters
Historical Authors: Jackson, Helen Hunt
State: Colorado
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Marriage, Reform
Genres: Advice Literature, Essays
Secrets Told. With Twenty-two Piquant Illustrations from Life
Historical Authors: Kingsbury, Alice Eliza
State: California
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Eve’s Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
Historical Authors: Harland, Marion, Terhune, Mary Virginia
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
Little Foxes
Historical Authors: Crowfield, Christopher, Stowe, Harriet Beecher
State: Connecticut
Keywords: Conduct, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Stories
Mothers in Council
Historical Authors: Gilman, Stella Scott, Vaughn, Marion
State: Alabama
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook