How to Be Happy Though Married

This handbook by E. J. Hardy gives advice and amusing anecdotes on how to be happily married by practicing courtesy, thoughtfulness, and unselfishness while avoiding fault-finding, bothering, boring, and other tormenting habits.

“If wholesome advice you can brook,
When single too long you have tarried;
If comfort you’d gain from a book,
When very much wedded and harried;
No doubt you should speedily look,
In ‘How to Be Happy Though Married!’”—Punch.

How to Be Happy Though Married
Being a Handbook to Marriage
• Author: Edward John Hardy
• Text of 1887 version published by T Fisher Unwin