Happiness and Marriage - Softcover

Towne, Elizabeth (Jones)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406902934 ISBN 13: 9781406902938

Publisher: Hard Press, 2006

Synopsis

The ounce of prevention and the pound of cure.

I cannot believe that unhappy marriages are "mistakes" or that they serve no good purpose. The Law of Attraction draws together those who need each other at that particular stage of their growth. The unhappiness is due to their own foolish refusal to learn; and this refusal is due to their contempt for each other. They are like naughty children at school, who cry or sulk and refuse to work out their problems. Like those same naughty children they make themselves unhappy, and fail to "pass" as soon as they might.

"Mrs. Towne never writes amiss. Never hesitates to tell what is to her is true and tells it in a most entertaining and unconventional style. She has put out the needed book. While ministers and reformers are trying to solve marriage and divorce from the outside and find legal means to prevent the one and make the other more binding, Mrs. Towne strikes at the root of the trouble from the inside with no uncertain sound and tells us "how to be happy though married!' and also tells one how to marry right and how to get out of marital unhappiness. It is a book for every one. I especially recommend parents to place it in the hands of their children, as the most consistent, natural, common-sense and healthful book. There will be none of the present social conditions where the young are bred on such mental food." -Now, A Journal of Affirmation

"Some pretty good advice." -The Humanitarian Review

"The great question of questions - as far as human relationship is concerned, - is here discussed with good sense and candor, from Elizabeth's point of view. She is strongly monistic and individualistic in her philosophy, and such as hold with her will find seventy-eight pages of simple and easily understood talk on married life, its problems, and their solution, that will be a great help to them." -Business Philosopher

"This is a very small brochure on a very large subject; but Mrs. Towne attacks it with all the courage, assurance and esprit de corps of any Japanese admiral afloat in the Yellow Sea, or of any major-general in Manchuria....The courage and audacity of the author are quiet equal to that of any Togo or Kuroki, and she evidently scorns to be hampered by either law, creed or precedent." -Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette

CHAPTER I. TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.

CHAPTER II. A TALE OF WOE.

CHAPTER III. TO BE LOVED.

CHAPTER IV. THE PHARISEE UP-TO-DATE.

CHAPTER V. SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR.

CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE CONTRACTS.

CHAPTER VII. SOME HINTS AND A KICK.

CHAPTER VIII. THE HEART OF WOMAN.

CHAPTER IX. THE LAW OF INDIVIDUALITY. CHAPTER X. HARMONY AT HOME.

CHAPTER XI. A MYSTERY.

CHAPTER XII. THE FAMILY JAR.

CHAPTER XIII. THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVORCE.

CHAPTER XIV. THE OLD, OLD STORY.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Towne (1865 - 1960) was an influential writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help movements. She married at quite an early age, but the marriage proved to be an unhappy one which ended in divorce. In order to support her children Elizabeth founded the Nautilus Magazine, which she brought to Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1900, and there married William E. Towne, a book and magazine publisher and distributor, and together they eventually built up a substantial and even profitable business in the publishing and distribution of the magazine and of New Thought books. It is quite evident that Mrs. Towne was very much the editor of Nautilus, and she wrote constantly for the magazine and published numerous books and pamphlets of her own and others' on New Thought lines. In 1924 Elizabeth Towne was elected president of the International New Thought Alliance and assumed editorship of the INTA periodical Bulletin also. The size of Bulletin doubled in a short period from around sixteen pages per issue to as many as thirty-two, and once even fifty-six under Mrs Towne. A letter from a former president of INTA recalls his seeing Elizabeth Towne walking arm in arm down the street one day with poets Edwin Markham and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an impressive sight as he recalled it. Elizabeth Towne was without doubt one of the more colorful characters in the history of the New Thought Movement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406902934
• ISBN 13: 9781406902938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56