13 Tips for Landing a Wife (in the 19th Century)
Theadvice bookswritten around the turn of the20th centuryto teach adult female tomake men happyare copious . Advice books in the same vein for man are rare . But in 1883 , a Methodist minister of religion named George W. Hudson write one such " advice for valet de chambre " book — The Marriage Guide for Young Men : A Manual of Courtship and Marriage . It was self - published , perhaps due to perceive lack of interest in marriage manual for men ....