A Return to Modesty

{{Short description|1999 book by Wendy Shalit}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox book |

|name = Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

|image = A Return to Modesty.jpg

|caption = First edition cover

|author = Wendy Shalit

|cover_artist = Albrecht Dürer, Eve, 1507

|country = United States

|genre =

|publisher = Free Press

|release_date = 1999

|media_type = Print (hardback and paperback)

|pages = 291

|isbn = 0684863170

}}

Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue is a 1999 non-fiction debut book by Wendy Shalit.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date=March 7, 1999|title=Maids of Honor|first=Emily|last=Eakin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/07/reviews/990307.07eakint.html}}[https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shalit-modesty.html The New York Times]{{cite web |title=Up Front (Published 2005) |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616145213/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/up-front.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/up-front.html}}[http://www.plantinga.ca/m/MBM.HTM Plantinga.ca]

The non-fiction book claims that the power to heal women's purported ills lies in reinstatement of sexual modesty, the resurrection of romantic ideals, and conservative manners.