Marriage

This 1900s take on marriage, written by the editor of the magazine Health and Vim, is the perfect gift for anyone getting married.

For the purposes of this book we must take it that you are a well developed, well bred, well educated person of correct habits, and that you have arrived at that age when young people are on the lookout for life partners and when love romances are such an attraction. You may be 'love sick' and wasting away through pining o'er a faithless swain, or you may be head over heels in a happy love affair and fancying yourself suited for ever and a day. In any case this book comes as a gleam of light to the perplexed and as a guide to all.

Chock full of useful advice on such subjects as 'obedience', 'matrimonial friction', 'housekeeping', 'confinement', 'women who break hearts' and 'marital rights', Marriage Before & After was written at the turn of the twentieth century. Selling well over 200,000 copies at the time, it was nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Its advice was, for the most part, sound, if a bit racy, and sometimes downright politically incorrect. For those who are married or about to marry, this book is a delight!