The Fight For Respectability and Freedom:  American Life During The Second Great Awakening, Activism, and Women Run Tea Rooms in the 1830s.

The Fight For Respectability and Freedom: American Life During The Second Great Awakening, Activism, and Women Run Tea Rooms in the 1830s.

I draw the curtain. I could show you other pictures more pathetic in their hopelessness, but refrain. Lessons in making home neat and attractive; lessons in making family life stronger, sweeter, and purer by personal efforts of the woman; lessons in tidiness of appearance among women; lessons of clean and pure habits of everyday life in the home, and thus bringing to the women self-respect and getting for them the respect of others; how to keep the girls near the mother, and many other kindred subjects, need to be given to this class of women to-day.”

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