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. (1866-5-19).
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.