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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... 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 , for example , never married nor owned a home ...
... live at home and be supported by her father , she sought ways to be independently self- supporting . She found teaching and administering schools to be a nerve- wracking task that often confined her to her bed . Thus she turned to ...
... lives , for to buy a single- family suburban dwelling , they needed to make a down payment of at least fifty percent of the cost and to pay off the balance within three years . " This reader's heaviest household work — laundry ...
... lives led within its walls . Herein lives " A Christian Family . " Their daily lives include the Utopian functions Stowe had hoped to establish in her Florida home and whose names head The American Woman's Home's chapters : " Early ...
... : Greenwood , 1994 . Green , Harvey . The Light of the Home : An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America . New York : Pantheon , 1983 . Grier , Katherine C. Culture and Comfort : Parlor Making xxxiv Selected Bibliography.
Contents
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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 |