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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... taken up the matter of Hatty's bargain with the Publishers and is determined to make a fuss about it .... What a pity that she will meddle so — she is so anxious that Hatty shd . have the means of educating her three million children ...
... taken the lives of so many young men of their generation . Others may have chosen to pursue careers and planned never to marry . A generation earlier , these women might have lived their adult lives at home , ministering to their aging ...
... taken into the stomach - Mental faculties then affected - Causes of mental disease - Want of oxygenized blood - Fresh air absolutely necessary - Excessive exercise of the intellect or feelings - Such attention to religion as prevents ...
... taken out , horizontal or curved shoots retained - All fruit - buds coming out after midsummer to be rubbed off - Suckers - Pruning to be done after sap is in circulation - Thinning - Leaves to be removed when they shade fruit near ...
... taken from it - Earth - closet based on power of clay and inorganic mat- ter to absorb and retain odors and fertilizing matter - Its construction - Mode of use - The ordinary privy - The commode or portable house - privy - Especial ...
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 |