Member: agrotke

CollectionsMiss Abigail (755), Personal Books (7), Your library (721), All collections (765)

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Tagssex (161), marriage (128), health (91), women (73), children (70), etiquette (69), love (55), dating (52), teenagers (50), manners (47) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsEvelyn Millis Duvall, Lillian Eichler, Elinor Glyn, Bernarr Macfadden (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresNormals, The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

About meHaunted by a charm-school class in junior high school and the inability to do my own hair or apply makeup, I have been collecting classic advice books for almost twenty years in a quest to sort it all out. I have a keen interest in historical materials and pop culture, not to mention a love of crawling around dirty used bookstores to find the perfect book to add to my collection. I live in an old house in Takoma Park, Maryland, with 1 cool musician, 2 terrier mutts, a pink fridge and an amazing collection of ice crushers.

About my libraryOh, only a mere 1,000 or so classic advice books spanning from 1822 to 1978 (I am slooowly adding them here). Topics include, dating, love, living together, marriage, health, beauty, puberty, sex, etiquette, housekeeping, home economics, and home repairs. On the website I answer questions to modern-day problems using the old advice books. I also have a new book of my own, Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage: Classic Advice for Contemporary Dilemmas!

Homepagehttp://www.missabigail.com

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Real nameAbigail Grotke

LocationTakoma Park, MD

Emailmissabigailmissabigail.com

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Member sinceNov 21, 2005