Her husband, too mortified to bring friends home, begins meeting with them at a nearby tavern. "She makes a halfhearted attempt to clean up her act, but it never sticks. I stop and scoop spilled ice cream off my shirt and continue. This slobby Victorian woman led her marriage and husband to ruin all for her "slovenly" dress and housekeeping. Here we learn about "The Slovenly Wife" from an 1838 edition of The Ladies Garland. Sitting on the couch in my dirty yoga pants, a worn old Star Wars tee, my hair up in a greasy bun, I set into a chapter titled "Being a Good Wife: How to Avoid His Eventual Resentment for as Long as Possible" and learned that the first most common path to marital ruin is Being Messy (at least in the Victorian Era). I brought Unmentionable home as a joke, knowing I needed to spend more time with it, knowing it's been a while since I've forced my husband to listen to me read sections of a book he is not familiar with out loud.
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