How to Marry Well How to Marry Well

How to Marry Well

    • 3.7 • 823 Ratings

Publisher Description

"HOW TO MARRY WELL" by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (aka The Duchess), is just a brilliant work in so many ways.


Fans of the Victorian era will rejoice to hear that particular 'voice' in her writing. And history lovers will be able to comb it over for delicious tidbits as Ms. Hungerford reveals her advice to young women, and her expectations of how they might act.


I particularly liked where she admonishes society for releasing girls into society with so little education. "A smattering of French, a word or two of German, an idea of what music really means, as gained from three years' acquaintances with scales and movements, and songs without words--and that is all! There is, of course, a good deal of reading of the scientific masters that serves only to puzzle the brains half given to the matter in hand, and then the girl is emancipated from the schoolroom".


And I personally found her advice to be most sound. And I'm plotting, even as I write this, on to how to get my own daughter to read this tract.


It's short and fun, though I must tell you that Ms. Hungerford is not a duchess. She's just a mom and a writer with common sense and an active imagination.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2008
25 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
5
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
10.1
KB

Customer Reviews

blue sharone ,

Great

I like that she ends it stating that the best basis for marriage is love.

Lhaxhill ,

Comment

Too short a book

Deedee Steph ,

Simple but Profound

It is a simple read, much like a conversation you’d have while waiting an hour for your train, but a conversation you would not forget too quickly.

A Bachelor's Dream A Bachelor's Dream
2009
The Haunted Chamber The Haunted Chamber
2005
How I write my novels How I write my novels
2008
A Little Rebel A Little Rebel
2006
The story of my first novel; How a novel is written The story of my first novel; How a novel is written
2008
The Hoyden The Hoyden
2005
Eight Elements for Success Eight Elements for Success
2015
Love and Freindship [sic] Love and Freindship [sic]
1817
Elements of Leadership Elements of Leadership
2017
Holiday Romance Holiday Romance
1868
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
1934
Persuasion Persuasion
1817