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Hints for Wives--and Husbands
- Journal of Women's History
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2003
- pp. 180-187
- 10.1353/jowh.2003.0044
- Article
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This article reveals, for the first time, the "humorous article" read by Lucretia Mott at the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. Written by Mott's sister Martha Coffin Wright, it presents a view of the gender roles in marriage very different from that expressed in most literature of its time.