The Mirror of True Womanhood

A Book of Instruction for Women in the World

Rev. Bernard O'Reilly

• Publisher: Left of Brain Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781396318726
• Year: 2021

This book teaches you how to make your household a paradise for your husband and children.Through poetic language and beautiful examples, Reverend Bernard O'Reilly displays the supernatural virtues of the Christian home. He explains how to have a happy family life, how to win the heart of your children and raise them to be pious and successful, and how to find happiness in your home and make it the favorite place of the whole family.It encourages the wife to be a reliable companion and true friend of her husband, showing how to make the family endure even the hardest times.If you have marriage issues or difficulty with your children, this book is bound to help. Here are the words of Thomas Foley, Bishop of Chicago, to the author upon reading his book: "It will be of vast service to many mothers and daughters in the Church by showing them how they may practically conform their lives to the bright pictures of womanly virtue you have so felicitously portrayed. And if others outside the Church may be induced to look into these pages, how many may be saved who are eager to do good and live virtuously, and have no one to teach them!"

Table of contents

• Imprimatur.
• The Author’s Preface.
• CHAPTER I. Introductory.
• CHAPTER II. The True Woman’s Kingdom—the Home.
• CHAPTER III. The Home Virtues (continued)—Hospitality, Holiness, and Innocence of Conversation.
• CHAPTER IV. How the Home can Be Made a Paradise.
• CHAPTER V. Further Illustrations of Selfishness and Unselfishness.
• CHAPTER VI. The Wife in the Christian Home.
• CHAPTER VII. Duties of the Wife as the Dispenser of the Home Treasures.
• CHAPTER VIII. The Wife’s Crowning Duty—Fidelity.
• CHAPTER IX. The Mother.
• CHAPTER X. The Mother’s Office Toward Childhood.
• CHAPTER XI. A Digression, Which May Serve as a Rest, and a Preparation for What Follows.
• CHAPTER XII. The Mother’s Office Toward Boyhood and Girlhood.
• CHAPTER XIII. How Mothers Should Train Their Boys and Girls (continued.)
• CHAPTER XIV. The Mother’s Office Toward Boyhood and Girlhood. Culture of the Heart—(continued.)
• CHAPTER XV Special Training for Girls and for Boys.
• CHAPTER XVI. Duties of the Mistress of the Home Toward Her Parents and Her Servants.
• CHAPTER XVII. Obstacles to the Right Government of the Home.
• CHAPTER XVIII. The Mistress of the Home and Her Social Duties.
• CHAPTER XIX. Maidenhood.
• CHAPTER XX. The Toilers of the Shop and the Loom.
• CHAPTER XXI. Servants in the Home.
• CHAPTER XXII. Supplementary.