...yet she also evinces resignation to male authority. Clarissa advises young housewives like herself, "Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first...Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions." In Recollections of a Southern Matron (1837), Cornelia Wilton is very much Clarissa Packard's southern...

...young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments when your will conflicts with his to whom Goil and society have given the control ; reverence his wishes even when you do nut his opinions. Opportunities enough will arise for the expression of your independence; to which...