A READER writes:

I thought I’d commend you for being a thinking housewife. As a believer in male headship, as well as a great admirer of the Brontë sisters, I hold that the ideal wife is a thinking being who is a complement to her husband.

From Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley:

“Solomon’s virtuous woman … had something more to do than spin and give out portions: she was a manufacturer – she made fine linen and sold it: she was an agriculturist – she bought estates and planted vineyards. That woman was a manager: … a worthy model! … Men of England! Look at your poor girls … envious, backbiting, wretched, because life is a desert to them; or, what is worst of all, reduced to strive, by scarce modest coquetry and debasing artifice, to gain that position and consideration by marriage, which to celibacy is denied. … Seek for them an interest and occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the maneuverer, the mischief-making talebearer.”

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Terry Morris writes:

Your reader might enjoy and/or derive some small benefit from watching this episode of “The DadCast,” in which I interview our daughter-in-law and we discuss her daily life as a wife, a mother, and a homemaker:

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