"Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making" by Annie S. Swan is a look into the old-fashioned ideas about love, marriage, and creating a home, told from a woman's point of view in the 1800s. The book talks about dating and getting to know someone, explaining what people expected from each other back then in a marriage. It highlights how important it was to keep up certain values in relationships and to take care of the home. Beginning with dating as a time to grow and learn about each other, the author looks at different kinds of partners and what to look for in a good match. After marriage, the book discusses what each person should do, focusing on helping each other out and understanding one another to make a happy home. Through careful explanation, the book shows the roles and what was expected of people in marriage and home life during that time.
Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making
By Annie S. Swan
Discover a bygone era's guide to love, marriage, and homemaking, where traditional values shaped relationships and expectations within the walls of a nurturing home.
Summary
About the AuthorAnnie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer. She wrote mainly in her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. A writer of romantic fiction for women, she had over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction published between 1878 and her death. She has been called "one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Swan was politically active in the First World War, and as a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party.
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