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  1. The Perfect Wife
    date April, 1837 to 1837map ALBANY, New Yorktags Women, Work

    "A knowledge of domestic duties is beyond price to a woman. Every one of our sex ought to know how to sew, and knit, and mend, and cook, and superintend a household." So began the article "Important Requisites in A Wife", published in the agricultural magazine The Cultivator, in April 1837. According to the author, a good wife considered her work her department, and did it when it needed to be done,...