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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... writers were sisters , Catharine Beecher , a pioneer of women's education , and her more famous sib- ling , Harriet Beecher Stowe , author of Uncle Tom's Cabin . In i869 , just four years after the Civil War ended , these two women ...
... writers who were her friends to contribute articles express- ing similar sentiments . 6 Catharine Beecher enjoyed a similar , although less extensive national celebrity some twenty years earlier as the founder and principal of Hartford ...
... writer grew , so did her family . In the first seven years of her marriage , Harriet gave birth to five children ( including twins ) . Overwhelmed by her offspring and lacking the inclination to be a good housekeeper , she continued to ...
... writers . As it had in the past , their collaboration depended on the important but unremarked support of domestic workers . After Calvin's retirement , Harriet reorganized her household so that she could write even more steadily , for ...
... writers who were Beecher's friends and students . 20. Beecher , Treatise , 42 . 21. Joan Hedrick , " Parlor Literature : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Question of ' Great Women Artists , " Signs 17 no . 2 ( winter 1992 ) : 289-290 . 22 ...
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X | 53 |
XI | 58 |
XII | 71 |
XIII | 85 |
XIV | 91 |
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XXVII | 205 |
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XXX | 228 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 256 |
XXXIII | 260 |
XV | 95 |
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XVIII | 122 |
XIX | 129 |
XX | 146 |
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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 |