Recollections of a HousekeeperApplewood Books, 2008 - 160 páginas Catherine Gilman's 1834 work provides a picture of domestic life and manners in New England. Claiming to take as her source the mingled results of observation and experience, Gilman's work provides insight into the life of a homemaker in nineteenth-century New England and is the precursor to her later Recollections of a Southern Matron. Taken as a pair, the two works provide insight into the regional differences in domestic economy between the North and the South in antebellum America. |
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... Becky Rand , " my woman in the kitchen , " ( the New - England circumlocution for cook ) . She confessed that after I had retired she thought it would do no harm to read a little , and being " dozy , " she let the kitchen 66 ...
... Becky Rand , " my woman in the kitchen , " ( the New - England circumlocution for cook ) . She confessed that after I had retired she thought it would do no harm to read a little , and being " dozy , " she let the kitchen 66 ...
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... Becky's literary taste . I had often observed a volume of " Zim- merman on Solitude , " covered with blue home- spun , lying on the dresser , and once , being in want of a skewer , detected one put for a mark at the following anecdote ...
... Becky's literary taste . I had often observed a volume of " Zim- merman on Solitude , " covered with blue home- spun , lying on the dresser , and once , being in want of a skewer , detected one put for a mark at the following anecdote ...
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... Becky . " What is a tutor ? " asked Polly " Mercy ' child , don't you know ? " said Becky , " why , a person that tutes ! ” Becky's sentimentalism was not confined to her bean vine . She rarely took up the gridiron without a sigh over ...
... Becky . " What is a tutor ? " asked Polly " Mercy ' child , don't you know ? " said Becky , " why , a person that tutes ! ” Becky's sentimentalism was not confined to her bean vine . She rarely took up the gridiron without a sigh over ...
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... Becky as we gave the sheets a finishing snap in folding , or wielded our irons with the skill of artists . And when on Tuesday evening every article was translated to its appropriate drawer , and Becky sat by the kitchen fire , at her ...
... Becky as we gave the sheets a finishing snap in folding , or wielded our irons with the skill of artists . And when on Tuesday evening every article was translated to its appropriate drawer , and Becky sat by the kitchen fire , at her ...
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