“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave,” Martin Luther emphasizes the portrayal of marriage in the nineteenth century through this quote, and does so by recognizing how women, and men, played their roles in such matrimony of this time period. Marriage and courtship played a large role in the lifestyles of those in the 1850’s, and determined how one’s family would be made, and how one’s heart would be used. In the context of engagement, the complications were quite clear: finding a mate in such a judgemental time period.
