Excerpt from The Young Wife, or Duties of Woman in the Marriage Relation<br><br>In pursuing my subject, however, I have not always confined myself to the more Obvious and generally admitted qualifications and duties which a new and interesting and important relation im poses upon the young wife, but have sometimes treated at large on several topics which are not only Of great importance to her as a member Of the human family, but whose importance, trained as she' usually is, in comparative ignorance, is greatly enhanced by the position she sustains to her husband and her other friends. In a word, I have endeavored to take her to be precisely what in the present state Of things a wife is, and to give such' advice and instruction as, in my own view.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.