The American Woman's HomeThe American Womans Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. Today, the book can be likened to an anthology of household hints, with articles on cooking, decorating, housekeeping, child-rearing, hygiene, gardening, etiquette, and home amusements. The American Womans Home, almost a bible on domestic topics for Victorian women, illuminates womens roles a century and a half ago and can be used for comparison with modern theories on the role of women in the home and in society. Illustrated with the original engravings, this completely new edition offers a lively introduction by Nicole Tonkovich and notes linking the text to important historical, social, and cultural events of the late nineteenth century |
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Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe Nicole Tonkovich. Second paperback printing , 2004 Beecher , Catharine Esther , 1800-1878 . The American woman's home / Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited and with an ...
Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe Nicole Tonkovich. nearly invisible workers . As we watch Martha Stewart " working " in her sparkling television kitchen , we seldom wonder who scrubbed the counters and sinks , or polished ...
... Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe . Their lives demonstrate the contradictions of domesticity that I have discussed above , for both promoted domestic ideals but each distanced herself from their daily execution . Catharine Beecher ...
Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe Nicole Tonkovich. this stove . " At times this collaboration became more literal . One of her for- mer Hartford students recalled that upon one occasion Beecher had " prom- ised ... to have ...
Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe Nicole Tonkovich. possessions and followed similar domestic practices if they owned a copy of The American Woman's Home . Women fallen on hard times could still enter- tain guests in a ...
Contents
VII | 23 |
VIII | 27 |
IX | 42 |
X | 53 |
XI | 58 |
XII | 71 |
XIII | 85 |
XIV | 91 |
XXVI | 197 |
XXVII | 205 |
XXVIII | 214 |
XXIX | 225 |
XXX | 228 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 256 |
XXXIII | 260 |
XV | 95 |
XVI | 108 |
XVII | 116 |
XVIII | 122 |
XIX | 129 |
XX | 146 |
XXI | 151 |
XXII | 162 |
XXIII | 167 |
XXIV | 176 |
XXV | 185 |
XXXIV | 265 |
XXXV | 270 |
XXXVI | 278 |
XXXVII | 282 |
XXXVIII | 286 |
XXXIX | 289 |
XL | 296 |
XLI | 308 |
XLII | 318 |
XLIII | 333 |