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HOW TO
"FINISH" A DAUGHTER
[SATIRE ON RAISING VICTORIAN GIRLS]
1. Be
always telling her how pretty she is.
2. Instill in her mind
a proper love of dress.
3. Accustom her to so
much pleasure that
she is never happy at home.
4. Allow her to read
nothing but novels.
5. Initiate her into
the principle that it is
vulgar to do any thing herself. To
strengthen the latter belief let her
have a lady's maid.
6. And lastly,
having given her such an
education, marry her to a clerk
who lives
upon a hundred dollars a year, or a
lieutenant going out
to a fort.
If, with the above careful
training, your daughter is not "finished," you may be sure
it is no fault of yours, and you must look upon her escape
as nothing short of a miracle.
How To
Cite This Article:
"How to "Finish" a Daughter", November 2, 1867
[electronic edition]. Harper's Bazaar, Nineteenth Century
Fashion Magazine,
http://harpersbazaar.victorian-ebooks.com (2005).
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