Women’s Health · Phrenology · Marriage Manuals · 1899
Marriage, Medicine and Victorian Womanhood — S. Randolph’s True Womanhood, 1899
S. Randolph · True Womanhood · South Shields, 1899 · New edition
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Description
Printed in South Shields, this privately issued publication joins advice for married and prospective married readers to guidance concerning women’s health. The author identifies himself as a “Phrenologist, Hygienist, etc.” and the original wrapper displays a price of two shillings.
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- Author
- S. Randolph
- Title
- True Womanhood; or, Thoughts for the Married and Those Intending to Marry
- Publication
- South Shields: S. Randolph, Station Approach, 1899
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
Phrenology and Historical Medicine
Phrenology is a discredited pseudoscience. Randolph’s claims are of interest as historical evidence of popular medical culture, domestic morality and gender expectations at the end of the nineteenth century, not as modern medical advice. An author portrait faces the title page.





