The Prudent Housewife

The Management of all Domestic Affairs is certainly the proper Business of Woman; and unfashionably rustic as such as Assertion may be thought, 'tis certainly not beneath the Dignity of any Lady, however high her rank, to know how educate her children, to govern her servants, to order an elegant Table with Oeconomy, and to manage her whole family with Prudence, Regularity and method.

Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother's ADvice to Her Absent Daughters, 1761

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The Duties of a married Female

"If the love of a wife be tempered with a tolerable share of good sense,
she will be sure never to have any private views of her own;
nor do any thing of consequence,
which her husband may possibly dislike,
without consulting him."

Wetenhall Wilkes, A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady, 1744.

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They are, generally speaking, the most happy women in the world [due to the good nature of Englishmen towards their Wives].

(Edward Chamberlayne: Angliae Notitia. in: Maureen Waller: 1700, Scenes from London Life. Sceptre, 2001, page 35.)

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Meiner Meinung nach ist der Mensch in einem stetigen Wandel, auf einer immerwährenden Erfahrungsreise - die Einzigen, die dies nicht merken, sind Menschen, die Scheuklappen aufhaben und somit die Dinge nicht an ihnen vorbeirauschen sehen. Und so dreht sich das Rad immer weiter, die alte Generation hetzt gegen die neue, ohne zu verstehen, worum es eigentlich geht: Neue Techniken und neue kulturelle Prozesse bieten immer Chancen zur negativen und positiven Gestaltung unserer Gesellschaft.

In my opinion people are in a steady change, on an eternal trip of experience - the only ones who do not notice this, are people who wear blinkers and therefore do not see the things rushing past them. And thus the wheel turns on and on, the old generation scolding the new without understanding what it is, actually, about: New technologies and new cultural processes always offer chances to the negative and positive creation of our society.

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Quite a Coincidence

Feb 28, 1763

... Went with Dyer, Russell and Master after dinner down to the Castle to see the Prisoners; where we drank two Bottles of Port and for Wine etc., pd 0.1.6. William Cartwright, a young, good-looking Fellow, who is in the Castle for a High Way Robbery, drank with us the last Bottle, and smoaked a Pipe with us, and seemed very sorry for what he had committed. We gave him between us 0.2.0. ...

James Woodeforde, Diary of a Country Parson 1758 - 1802, pg. 14

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