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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... duty . Thus " The Care of Health " declares that a woman need not " undertake the minute and extensive investigation requisite for a physician " : rather , she need only " gain a general knowledge of first principles , as a guide to her ...
... duties of the family state . " The very circumstances of its composition announce its failure to do so : Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe were respected not for their work as housewives and homekeepers , but for their ...
... Duties and Pleasures of the Home . A Text Book for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools , Seminaries , and Col- leges . New York : J. B. Ford , 1870 . Sources and Further Reading Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities : Reflections on ...
... Duties and Pleasures of the Home . A Text Book for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools , Seminaries , and Col- leges ( New York : J. B. Ford , 1870 ) ; and a volume called The American House- keeper and Healthkeeper , eventually ...
... duties . - Pages 19-21 . I. THE CHRISTIAN Family . Object of the Family State - Duty of the elder and stronger to raise the younger , weaker , and more ignorant to an equality of advantages - Discipline of the family- The example of ...
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 |