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• Family life education -- United States
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• Sex instruction

• Home Education (fifth edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1906), by Charlotte M. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household Education (London: E. Moxon, 1849), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Heart of the Home (picture edition; New York: American Heart Association, ca. 1949), by New York Heart Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Good Housekeeping Housekeeping Book (Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., c1947), ed. by Helen W. Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purefoy Hotel Cook Book: True and Tried Recipes of Real Southern Cooking (Talladega, AL: E. B. Purefoy, 1953), by Eva Brunson Purefoy and Louise P. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• All Around the House, or, How to Make Homes Happy (Toronto: J. Robertson, 1881), by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Frugal Housewife (12th edition, 1832), by Lydia Maria Child (Gutenberg text)
• The American Woman's Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science, by Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• Domestic and Rural Affairs, by Elliot G. Storke (page images at MOA)
• The Domestic Encyclopaedia: or, A Dictionary of Facts, and Useful Knowledge (4 volumes; London: Printed for Murray and Highley, 1802), by A. F. M. Willich
  • Volume 1 (A - Cisterns): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Citron - Jessamine): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Jet - Rue): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Ruff - Yellow, and indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848), by Thomas Webster and Mrs. William Parkes, ed. by David Meredith Reese (PDF at djm.cc; 186 MB)
• An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855), by Thomas Webster and Mrs. William Parkes, ed. by David Meredith Reese (multiple formats at Google)
• From Attic to Cellar: or, Housekeeping Made Easy (Salem: Salem Press, 1892), by Elizabeth F. Holt (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• House and Home Papers, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• Housekeeping (1916), by Elizabeth Hale Gilman (searchable page images at Wisconsin)
• Increasing Home Efficiency (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Martha Bensley Bruère and Robert W. Bruère (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Little Helpmate, or, How to Keep Husbands At Home: A Dictionary of Useful Information Not Generally Known (Saint John, NB: Ellis, Robertson, 1894), by E. M. Tree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper, by Catharine Esther Beecher (page images at MOA)
• Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers (New York: J. B. Ford and Co., 1873), by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
• Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife, by Marion Mills Miller, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• The Scholars' Handbook of Household Management and Cookery (London: Macmillan and Company, 1876), by W. B. Tegetmeier (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Things Girls Like to Do (Philadelphia and San Francisco: Uplift Pub. Co., 1917), by Elizabeth Hale Gilman and Effie Archer Archer
  • searchable page images at Wisconsin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Thrift for Troubled Times (third edition; London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1917), by National Training School for Cookery (Great Britain) (page images at Wisconsin)
• Training the Little Home Maker, by Kitchengarden Methods (1912), by Mabel Louise Keech (searchable page images at Wisconsin)
• Work for the Colored Women of the South (Tuskegee: Normal School Press, 1894), ed. by Margaret James Murray Washington
  • page images at HathiTrust; some pages may be duplicated or missing
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some pages may be duplicated or missing
• The Book of Household Management (London: S. O. Beeton, 1861), by Mrs. Beeton, illust. by Harrison Weir, Myles Birket Foster, and Henry George Hine (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Beeton
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at exclassics.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Cottage Economy; To Which is Added, The Poor Man's Friend (New York: J. Doyle, 1833), by William Cobbett (Gutenberg text)
• The Every-Day Cook-Book and Encyclopedia of Practical Recipes (San Francisco: Examiner-Press, 1889), by E. Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information, Containing Over Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts (New York: T. Kelly, 1881), ed. by Henry Hartshorne (PDF with commentary at rexresearch.com)
• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information, Containing Over Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts (Philadelphia: T. E. Zell, 1883), ed. by Henry Hartshorne (PDF with commentary at rexresearch.com)
• The Housekeeper's Book (Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1837), by Frances H. Green (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (fourth edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852), by Mrs. Loudon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Manual of Domestic Economy, or, House-Keeper's Guide: Comprising a Very Large Collection Of Original Recipes, Derived from the Practical Experience of the Author (Dayton, OH: J. Wilson, 1841), by George Girardey (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery and Household Management (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1885), by Juliet Corson (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)
• Selling Mrs. Consumer (New York: The Business Bourse, 1929), by Christine Frederick (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The New London Family Cook: or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide (London: Printed for J. Cundee, 1808), by Duncan Macdonald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Sex Education (SIECUS study guide #1; New York: Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S., 1974), by Lester Allen Kirkendall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Sex Techniques (New York: Archer House, c1959), by Robert Street (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts Aren't Enough (Sex education series #5; ca. 1955), by Marion O. Lerrigo and Helen F. Southard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mother's Little Helper: Twelve Heart-to-Heart Talks of a Mother to Her Daughter, in Three Parts (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, c1952) (HTML at EWTN)
• Picture Stories of the Sex Life of Man and Woman (New York: Cadillac Publishing Co., c1941), by David H. Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex and the Young (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What Every Girl Should Know (Girard, Kan.: Haldeman-Julius Co., ca. 1922), by Margaret Sanger (PDF page images at MSU)
• Sexual Ecstasy From Ancient Wisdom, by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (zipped HTML at sexualecstasy.org)
• The Sexual Life of the Child (based on the 1912 translation), by Albert Moll, trans. by Eden Paul (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• What Every Girl Should Know (Springfield, IL: United Sales Co., 1920), by Margaret Sanger (PDF page images at MSU)
• What Every Mother Should Know, or How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth, by Margaret Sanger (PDF page images at MSU)
• Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of Their Children, in Relation to Sex (7th edition; London: Hatchards, 1884), by Elizabeth Blackwell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Le Livre de Volupté (Bah Nameh) (in French; Haqq credited as translator, but title page information dubious; ca. 1884), contrib. by Abdul Haqq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married Love: or, Love in Marriage (New York: The Critic and Guide Company, 1918), by Marie Carmichael Stopes, ed. by William J. Robinson (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sanity in Sex (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by William J. Fielding (multiple formats at archive.org)

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