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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... called shelter magazines and books of domestic advice crowd bookstore shelves . Martha Stewart counsels her followers not only about cooking , sewing , gar- dening , and general " homekeeping , " but on choosing and caring for pets ...
... called carpetbaggers , Northerners who had found the South to be an ideal place to buy land at depressed prices , invest in the reparation of southern factories and railroads destroyed in the War , and enjoy the warm climate as a refuge ...
... called " The Queen of Inventions " by Godey's Lady Book , the leading women's magazine of the day . Still other postwar commodities eliminated such tasks altogether : One need no longer build one's own furniture , raise and butcher ...
... called a domestic virtue ... one which has a peculiar claim to be styled American and democratic . " Whereas in aristocratic nations the leisured wealthy lie abed while the workers who support them toil from daybreak , in a democratic ...
... called The American House- keeper and Healthkeeper , eventually published under the title Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper ( New York : Harper Brothers , 1873 ) . In 1873 , The American Woman's Home was revised , retitled ...
Contents
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XXXIV | 265 |
XXXV | 270 |
XXXVI | 278 |
XXXVII | 282 |
XXXVIII | 286 |
XXXIX | 289 |
XL | 296 |
XLI | 308 |
XLII | 318 |
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