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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…

Contributor:

Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1799–1800

Subjects:

Marriage, Love, Salon, Women

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Letters
Engraving of woman seated in front of a tree at a table, facing the viewer with her left elbow resting on the table and her right hand holding a book in her lap.