A Word to Women

Table of contents

• Preface
• Mother and Daughter
• Our School-Girls
• What about Sewing?
• Mothers and Sons
• Our Clever Children
• Ultra-Tidiness
• Good Manners at Home
• Are Woman Cowards?
• A Glass of Wine
• Some Old Proverbs
• Candour as a Home Commodity
• Golden Silence
• A Social Conscience
• Our Debts
• The Domestic Girl
• The Girl-Bachelor
• The Middle-Aged Chaperon
• Lightheartedness
• A Bit of Everyday Philosophy
• Deadly Dulness
• The Pleasures of Middle Age
• Growing Old

More by Mrs. Humphry

• Manners for Men

Other Non Fiction classics

• Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• Complete Herbal — Culpeper
• Mars — Percival Lowell
• Kama Sutra — Vatsyayana
• Pepy's Diary — Samuel Pepys
• Das Kapital — Karl Marx