wifehood

• It's ol 'girl's last night before wifehood, and we will do our best to make sure hers is a night she will not soon forget!
• Even when wifehood, and subsequently motherhood came knocking at my door, I was fortunate in that I wasn't expected to do the entire gamut household chores: just a few of them. —  Write Away
• She is new to wifehood, and she stands a little in awe of Jasper Wilmarth. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• If there is any complaint respecting the work they have to do, it is of the deficit, and the inferior health of the women between their school-days and their wifehood is to be accounted for by the want of occupation and independence. —  The Education of American Girls
• I know myself what it is to sink into a bottomless pit of senseless misery, but I must tell you that it nearly always happens when I am idle A woman that is debarred from woman's best profession--wifehood and motherhood--must find some other work to do; idleness, uselessness--above all, idleness--are the hotbed of all manner of follies. —  The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher

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