Marion Harland 
The Secret of a Happy Home [EPUB ebook] 

The wife's irrational longing to extract absolute sympathy of taste, opinion and feeling, from her wedded lord, is a baneful growth which is as sure to spring up about the domestic hearth as pursley–named by the Indian, "the white man's foot"–to show itself about the squatter's door. Once rooted it is as hard to eradicate as plantain and red sorrel.