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What Tradwife “Influencers” of Centuries Past Share With Their Social Media Contemporaries

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Once upon a time, before Ballerina Farm and Nara Smith, there were 1800s domestic advice manuals.
In the middle of the 19th century, writers Lydia Maria Child and Catherine Beecher were busy defining what the ideal home—and the ideal woman—should be. The American Frugal Housewife (1829), A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1842), and The American Woman’s Home (1869) offered instructions on everything from bread-baking to furniture to babies, all wrapped up with a submit-to-your-husband bow.
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