The English Housewife
Markham, Gervase / Best, Michael R.![The English Housewife](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/930/9306611/CHSBZCOP039306611.jpg)
In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife.