The American Woman's Home

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Rutgers University Press, 2002 - Family & Relationships - 388 pages

The 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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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
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