Marriage and Family
On December 8, 1848, Mary married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father.
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“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)
“If a family lives in harmony, all its affairs will prosper.”
—Chinese proverb.
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