Wee Wifie, by Rosa Nouchette Carey. New York, The Federal Book Company. No date, first published ca 1869. Revised edition published ca 1898.
A domestic melodrama: there are caddish men, honorable and virtuous beautiful women, and oh-so-convenient deaths.
The printing is one of the worst I’ve seen for a while — the title page gives a glimpse of the difficulties the proofers are going to have to deal with…