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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... chapter , in addition to offering concrete advice , seeks to make rational the quotidian and messy tasks of household practice by inte- grating into a larger system of social , scientific , patriotic , and evangelical meaning . In the ...
... chapters based on Catharine's other books , especially Letters to the People on Health and Happiness . With these they intermixed seg- ments from Harriet's House and Home Papers ( see , e.g. , Chapter 13 , which is reprinted nearly ...
... chapter , significantly titled " The Christian Family , " announces that " the blessed privileges of the family state are not confined to those who rear children of their own . Any woman who can earn a livelihood , as every woman should ...
... Chapter Five declares that if " all American housekeepers could be taught how to select and manage the most economical and convenient apparatus for cooking and warming a house , many millions now wasted by ignorance and neglect would be ...
... chapter , The American Woman's Home warns that " the family state " is endangered by the celibacy endorsed by Roman Catholicism , while convent and monastic education " [ collect ] the young in great establishments away from the watch ...
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 |