What a Young Wife Ought to Know
Philadelphia: The Vir Publishing Company, 1908.
16mo. 293 pp. Maroon cloth over boards with blind-stamped titles on the front, spine stamped in gilt; minor edge wear and light fraying to the spine ends, small abrasion to the lower front board. Complete with photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Tissue gaurd in tact. Pages naturally toned.
Dr. Emma Drake’s manual on marital advice and social purity, published as an official entry in the Vir Publishing Company’s widely distributed Self and Sex Series. Written by a practicing female physician, the manual offers advice on the psychological, moral, and biological duties of marriage, reproductive anatomy, pregnancy care, and early domestic child-rearing. A fascinating artifact of late-Victorian feminist social advocacy.
Price: $50.00