Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern
by Fanny Fern
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About This Book
Excerpt: Think, you, her husband, how little a kind word, a smile, a caress to you, how much to her. If you call these things "childish" and "beneath your notice," then you should never have married. There are men who should remain forever single. You are one. You have no right to require of a woman her health, strength, time and devotion, to mock her with this shadowy, unsatisfying return. A new bonnet, a dress, a shawl, a watch, anything, everything but what a true woman's heart most craves—sympathy, appreciation, love. She may be rich in everything else; but if she be poor in these, and is ...
Chapters (32)
- FOLLY AS IT FLIES;
- HIT AT
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- FOLLY AS IT FLIES.
- A DISCOURSE UPON HUSBANDS.
- GRANDMOTHER'S CHAT ABOUT CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD.
- WOMEN AND THEIR DISCONTENTS.
- WOMEN AND SOME OF THEIR MISTAKES.
- NOTES UPON PREACHERS AND PREACHING.
- BRIDGET AS SHE WAS, AND BRIDGET AS SHE IS.
- A CHAPTER ON TOBACCO.
- GIVE THE CONVICTS A CHANCE.
- A GLANCE AT WASHINGTON.
- GLIMPSES OF CAMP LIFE IN WAR TIME.
- UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WAR.
- MY SUMMERS IN NEW ENGLAND.
- BOSTON AND NEW YORK.—THE DIFFERENCE.
- ABOUT SOME THINGS IN NEW YORK WHICH HAVE INTERESTED ME.
- THE WORKING-GIRLS OF NEW YORK.
- WASHING THE BABY.
- CHILDREN HAVE THEIR RIGHTS.
- MOURNING.
- TO YOUNG GIRLS.
- A LITTLE TALK WITH "THE OTHER SEX."
- A CHAPTER ON MEN.
- LITERARY PEOPLE.
- SOME VARIETIES OF WOMEN.
- CONCERNING THE MISTAKES ABOUT OUR CHILDREN.
- THOUGHTS ON SOME EVERY DAY TOPICS.
- A TRIP TO THE NORTHERN LAKES.
- THE END.
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