Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    What a Young Woman Ought to Know
    What a Young Woman Ought to Know
    What a Young Woman Ought to Know
    Ebook378 pages3 hours

    What a Young Woman Ought to Know

    By Mary Wood-Allen

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    What a Young Woman Ought to Know

    Read more from Mary Wood Allen

    Related to What a Young Woman Ought to Know

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Life Of A Trad Wife

      Sep 3, 2020

      Life Of A Trad Wife
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Mine Tragedy Remembered

      Feb 24, 2022

      A Mine Tragedy Remembered
      9 min read

    • Article

      Little Women Go Queer

      Nov 26, 2019

      Little Women Go Queer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Beyond Parody

      Nov 26, 2020

      AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES nothing better than chuckling at the likes of Wimmin in Private Eye and Millie Tant in Viz, I am always on the lookout for new feminist parody. Which is why I love Titania McGrath so much. The parody Twitter account devised by th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Boys Are Not Defective

      Sep 21, 2017

      Boys Are Not Defective
      18 min read

    • Article

      WALKING in THE LIGHT

      Oct 20, 2019

      WALKING in THE LIGHT
      10 min read

    • Article

      Domestic Bliss?

      Jul 6, 2023

      Domestic Bliss?
      4 min read

    • Article

      The 35 Best Health and Science Books to Read This Summer

      Jun 21, 2017

      Hopefully you have time carved out for some rest and relaxation this summer, but whatever will you read? We here at STAT have you covered.

      12 min read

    • Article

      ‘Ungovernable’: Featured Nonfiction from Therese Oneill

      Apr 16, 2019

      Preparation for motherhood as the Victorians did begins the moment you awkwardly allow your new husband to bunch your thirteen pounds of nightdress around your waist and accidentally elbow you in the chin while blindly but earnestly trying to navigat

      5 min read

    • Article

      BOOKMARK THIS read…listen…stream

      Oct 18, 2022

      What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What it Can Teach Us Kim Haines-Eitzen • Princeton University Press Most of us likely think of deserts as barren with no redeeming value. Not so for Kim Haines-Eitzen, who finds a rich soundscape t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Elaine Welteroth

      Mar 13, 2020

      Elaine Welteroth
      2 min read

    • Article

      Books With The Most Impact

      Dec 4, 2021

      Books With The Most Impact
      7 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Feb 26, 2020

      Your book features 75 women who all work with plants or gardening in some way. How did you decide who to include? I began with different categories of work and then tried to find the people to fill them. So I had areas like landscape design, herbali

      2 min read

    • Article

      The BOOK That Changed My Life

      Jun 17, 2021

      The BOOK That Changed My Life
      8 min read

    • Article

      Elaine Welteroth

      Mar 13, 2020

      Elaine Welteroth
      2 min read

    • Article

      Q&A with Bonnie

      Apr 21, 2023

      ◗ Elizabeth Zott is a character we would all love to know or even become. Where did such a personality spring from? Fury! I started Lessons in Chemistry about seven years ago. I’d just come out of a meeting, irritated by some garden variety sexism, a

      6 min read

    • Article

      Parenting Déjà Vu

      May 12, 2023

      Parenting Déjà Vu
      4 min read

    Reviews for What a Young Woman Ought to Know

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      What a Young Woman Ought to Know - Mary Wood-Allen

      Project Gutenberg's What a Young Woman Ought to Know, by Mary Wood-Allen

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: What a Young Woman Ought to Know

      Author: Mary Wood-Allen

      Release Date: March 30, 2009 [EBook #28458]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOW ***

      Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Jeannie Howse and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.

      Commendations

      from Eminent

      Men & Women

      What

      A Young Woman

      Ought to Know

      COMMENDED BY REV. F.B. MEYER

      The Eminent English Preacher and Author

      REV. F.B. MEYER, B.A.

      Minister of Christ Church, Westminster, London,

      Author of "Israel, A Prince with

      God, Elijah; Tried by Fire, The

      Bells of Is," etc., etc.

      The questions which are dealt with in the 'Self and Sex Series' of books are always being asked, and if the answer is not forthcoming from pure and wise lips it will be obtained through vicious and empirical channels. I therefore greatly commend this series of books, which are written lucidly and purely, and will afford the necessary information without pandering to unholy and sensual passion. I should like to see a wide and judicious distribution of this literature among Christian circles.

      COMMENDED BY CHARLES M. SHELDON

      The Eminent American Preacher and Author

      CHARLES M. SHELDON, D.D.

      Pastor of Central Congregational Church,

      Topeka, Kansas; author of In His Steps,

      The Crucifixion of Philip Strong,

      Lend a Hand, Born to Serve.

      It is a pleasure to call attention to the books of the 'Self and Sex Series' which have been prepared with great wisdom for the express purpose of teaching the truth concerning the subjects which are painfully neglected.

      COMMENDED BY MRS. M.W. SEWALL

      The Eminent American Educator

      MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL

      Principal of the Girls' Classical School;

      former President of the International Council

      of Women; and Nominee of the International

      Congress of Women.

      I am profoundly grateful that a subject of such information to young women should be treated in a manner at once so noble and so delicate that any pure-minded teacher or mother may read or discuss its pages with young girls without the slightest chance of wounding the most delicate sensibilities, or by being misunderstood.

      COMMENDED BY MRS. M.L. DICKINSON

      The Eminent American Christian Worker

      MRS. MARY LOWE DICKINSON

      Former President of the National Council of Women;

      General Secretary of the Order of The King's

      Daughters; Emeritus Professor of Literature

      Denver University; Editor of The Silver Cross;

      Author of "The Temptation of Katharine

      Gray, One Little Life," etc., etc.

      Any young woman, knowing all that this volume teaches, has an essential foundation for whatever other knowledge she may acquire.

      COMMENDED BY MRS. M.B. CARSE

      The Eminent American Christian Worker

      MRS. MATILDA B. CARSE

      Founder of the Woman's Temple, Chicago.

      As a mother, I can truly say that my heart goes out to you in endorsement of this book. It is pure and instructive on the delicate subjects that mean so much to our daughters, to their future as home-keepers, wives and mothers, and to the future generations. It can but create a more reverent ideal of life in every girl who reads it, and I wish every daughter in the land could reap of its benefit.

      COMMENDED BY MRS. E.C. STANTON

      The Eminent American Lecturer and Author

      MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

      Noted Woman Suffragist, Lecturer

      and Author.

      Your books I consider a valuable addition to the literature of the day on social ethics. The many facts you state are not only important for a knowledge of social science, but involve good health and morals.

      COMMENDED BY MR. C.N. CRITTENTON

      The Eminent American Philanthropist

      CHARLES N. CRITTENTON

      Founder of the National Florence Crittenton Mission

      "The frequent excuse which parents give for not enlightening their children on these most important points is that they have never known how to do so. This excuse can no longer be considered valid.

      Dr. Wood-Allen has a remarkable gift in the facility and refinement with which she is able to approach the most delicate subject without arousing a single morbid and sensitive impulse.

      COMMENDED BY MRS. H. CAMPBELL

      The Eminent American Author and Educator

      MRS. HELEN CAMPBELL

      Dean of the Department of Household Economics

      in the Kansas State Agricultural College.

      Author of Prisoners of Poverty, "Wage

      Earners," etc., etc.

      I cannot speak too warmly of your invaluable series. There is hardly a woman in America so thoroughly qualified by education, long experience, deep sympathies, and, most excellent of all gifts, as deep common sense, as Dr. Mary Wood-Allen, to meet the growing need, or rather the growing sense of need. Mothers and fathers alike will be helped and enlightened by these simple, clear-phrased, wholesome books, and they deserve all the success already their own.

      COMMENDED BY L.M.N. STEVENS

      The Eminent Temperance Worker

      MRS. LILLIAN M.N. STEVENS

      President of National Woman's Christian

      Temperance Union.

      I consider the book 'What a Young Wife Ought to Know' a wise and safe teacher. It is a careful and delicate presentation of vital truths which have to do with the happiness and welfare of home life.

      COMMENDED BY EMINENT AMERICAN

      AUTHORS AND EDITORS

      MARGARET WARNER MORLEY

      Author of The Song of Life, Life and Love,

      The Bee People, etc.

      There is an awful need for the book, and it does what it has undertaken to do better than anything of the kind I have ever read. You may rely upon me to make it known wherever I can.

      ELISABETH ROBINSON SCOVIL

      Superintendent of the Newport Hospital, and

      Associate Editor of the Ladies' Home Journal;

      Author of The Care of Children, etc.

      "'What a Young Woman Ought to Know' is characterized by purity of tone and delicacy of treatment.

      It is one which a mother can place with confidence in the hands of her daughter. Reverent knowledge is the surest safeguard of innocence, and it is every mother's duty to see that the young girl committed to her charge is duly forearmed by being forewarned of the dangers that lie around her.

      Pure Books on Avoided Subjects

      Books for Men

      By Sylvanus Stall, D.D.

      What a Young Boy Ought to Know.

      What a Young Man Ought to Know.

      What a Young Husband Ought to Know.

      What a Man of 45 Ought to Know.

      Books for Women

      By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.

      And Mrs. Emma F.A. Drake, M.D.

      What a Young Girl Ought to Know.

      What a Young Woman Ought to Know.

      What a Young Wife Ought to Know.

      What a Woman of 45 Ought to Know.

      PUBLISHED BY

      IN THE UNITED STATES

      THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY

      200-214 N. Fifteenth Street Philadelphia

      IN ENGLAND

      THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY

      4 Imperial Bldgs., Ludgate Circus, London, E.C.

      IN CANADA

      RYERSON PRESS

      Cor. Queen and John Streets, Toronto, Ontario

      MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.

      NEW REVISED EDITION

      Self and Sex Series

      WHAT A YOUNG

      WOMAN

      OUGHT TO KNOW

      BY

      MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.

      National Superintendent of the Purity

      Department Woman's Christian Temperance

      Union; Author of "What a Young Girl

      Ought to Know, Marvels of Our Bodily

      Dwelling, Child Confidence Rewarded,"

      Teaching Truth, Almost a Man,

      Almost a Woman.

      Philadelphia, Pa.:           200-214 N. Fifteenth Street

      THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY

      London:          Toronto:

      4 Imperial Buildings,          The Ryerson Press,

      Ludgate Circus, E.C.          Queen and John Streets.

      Copyright, 1913, by SYLVANUS STALL

      Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.

      Protected by International copyright in Great Britain and all her colonies and possessions, including India and Canada, and, under the provisions of the Berne Convention in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain and her colonies, France, including Algeria and the French colonies, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Tunis.

      All rights reserved

      [PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES]

      Copyright, 1889, by Sylvanus Stall

      Copyright, 1905, by Sylvanus Stall

      TO

      THE DAUGHTER DEAR,

      WHOSE INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMPANIONSHIP FROM

      CHILDHOOD TO WOMANHOOD HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE

      FOR ME TO FEEL A SYMPATHETIC INTEREST IN

      THE LIFE-PROBLEMS OF ALL GIRLS, THIS

      BOOK IS MOST LOVINGLY

      DEDICATED

      BY HER

      MOTHER

      CONTENTS.

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1