CONTENTS.


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I. What will You do with Her? or, The Woman Question[1]
II. Woman's Sphere[27]
III. A Family-Talk on Reconstruction[63]
IV. Is Woman a Worker?[100]
V. The Transition[123]
VI. Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health[142]
VII. How shall we entertain our Company?[166]
VIII. How shall we be amused?[187]
IX. Dress, or who makes the Fashions[205]
X. What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress[235]
XI. The Cathedral[259]
XII. The New Year[278]
XIII. The Noble Army of Martyrs[297]

THE CHIMNEY-CORNER.


I. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH HER? OR, THE WOMAN QUESTION.

"Well, what will you do with her?" said I to my wife.

My wife had just come down from an interview with a pale, faded-looking young woman in rusty black attire, who had called upon me on the very common supposition that I was an editor of the "Atlantic Monthly."