An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Mrs. Brown on Bringing Up a Family [from the London Fun]

"Mrs. Brown on Bringing Up a Family [from the London Fun]." New-York Saturday Press, May 19, 1866, 2.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

Mrs. Brown reflects on raising children, her thoughts framed by nostalgia for her own son who is now grown up and has a family and farm of his own in Canada. Mrs. Brown questions Christian rhetoric while generally pondering methods of childrearing.