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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... : regardless of how glamorously sleek magazines and television shows present the religion of domesticity , its performance depends on the labor of unpaid or underpaid and nearly invisible workers . As we watch Martha Stewart " ix II.
... present , and they were asked to round out a certain number of pages of receipts upon fish , flesh , and fowl , cakes and dainties , and return to her the results of their new studies . These were compiled into a book , and the work ...
... presents detailed diagrams of physical , biological , and chemical processes that relate to every- day life . Following such general principles , a woman can simplify her work and behave as a rational professional . This insistence on ...
... Lady Byron Vindicated : A History of the Byron Controversy , from Its Begin- nings in 1816 to the Present Time . Boston : Fields , Osgood , & Co. , 1870 . Little Foxes : or , The Insignificant Little Habits Which xxxiii III.
... Present organizations under church direction too mechanical - Christian family influence the true instrument of Gospel propaga- tion - Practical suggestions for gathering a Christian family in neglected neighbor- hoods - Plan of church ...
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 |