Gender Roles of Husband and Wife in the Home Based on 1880s Gentleman’s Etiquette Manual

Gender Roles of Husband and Wife in the Home Based on 1880s Gentleman’s Etiquette Manual
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The husband, in fact, should act toward his wife as becomes a perfect gentleman, regarding her as the “best lady in the land,” to whom, above all other earthly beings, he owes paramount allegiance. 

HOME is the woman’s kingdom, and there she reigns supreme. To embellish that home, to make happy the lives of her husband and the dear ones committed to her trust, is the honored task which it is the wife’s province to perform. All praise be to her who so rules and governs in that kingdom, that those reared beneath her roof “shall rise up and call her blessed.”
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