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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... parents . Offering her expertise wherever there was a possibility of establishing a permanent institution of higher education for women , she also cajoled and harangued reluctant school boards to hire women as teachers . From Boston to ...
... parents . Within the Beecher sisters ' lifetimes , however , many unmarried women followed new paths made possible by Catharine's work in both edu- cating women to be teachers and in making that profession respectable and remunerative ...
... parents , and the healthful and self - sacrificing labors of a home . " Even such unlikely topics as " Clothing " reveal the limits of the American identity the book seems to propound . Here the Beecher sisters compare the physical ...
... Parents and children- The rearing of children to courtesy - De Tocqueville on American manners . - Pages 151-161 . XVI . GOOD TEMPER IN THE HOUSEKEEPER . Easier for a household under the guidance of an equable temper in the mistress ...
... parents generally the cause of evils ascribed to Providence - Errors of management during the first two years - Food of child and of mother - Warning as to use of too much medicine - Fresh air - Care of the skin - Dress - Sleep ...
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 |