An Advice to Married Women

A broadside ballad estimated to have been published in the mid-to-late 19th century. Verse 1 begins: 'Now you married women all, / Your attention I do call, / And a good advice ill give you I am thinking, / For the husband I have got'. The woodcut at the top of the sheet depicts a well-dressed couple standing in a leafy clearing. They appear to have fallen out, however, as their bodies are stiff and turned away from one another. This poem also reveals the horrors of alcoholism.

[Shelfmark RB.m.168(001)]