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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... Frederick Packard entered on the before tranquil scene , when forthwith appeared an ac- companying train of vials , fennel - seed , and pap . He was blessed from the moment of his birth with a pair of lungs that needed no De- 70 ...
... Frederick Packard entered on the before tranquil scene , when forthwith appeared an ac- companying train of vials , fennel - seed , and pap . He was blessed from the moment of his birth with a pair of lungs that needed no De- 70 ...
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... Frederick's voice grew fainter and fainter , until at length , over- powered by superior physical strength , he dropped asleep , and looked as if no storm had ever hung over his placid brow . How beautiful is the sleep of infancy , with ...
... Frederick's voice grew fainter and fainter , until at length , over- powered by superior physical strength , he dropped asleep , and looked as if no storm had ever hung over his placid brow . How beautiful is the sleep of infancy , with ...
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... white broadcloth , faced with red , with a gold - laced chapeau bras , he looked as though " his eye Could create soldiers , and make women fight , " yet was he a mere coward when Frederick opened his A HOUSEKEEPER . 73.
... white broadcloth , faced with red , with a gold - laced chapeau bras , he looked as though " his eye Could create soldiers , and make women fight , " yet was he a mere coward when Frederick opened his A HOUSEKEEPER . 73.
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... Frederick ceased to be fretful , he be- came mischievous . By a well - timed slap , I cured him of some daydawn experiments on me ; but his favourite plaything at that hour , so delightful for repose after a disturbed night , was his ...
... Frederick ceased to be fretful , he be- came mischievous . By a well - timed slap , I cured him of some daydawn experiments on me ; but his favourite plaything at that hour , so delightful for repose after a disturbed night , was his ...
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... Frederick was a week old , his father brought home the treatises of Hamilton , West , Edgeworth , & c . on education . I had previously seen him poring over Rousseau and Xenophon . He read them faithfully , and dis- cussed them ...
... Frederick was a week old , his father brought home the treatises of Hamilton , West , Edgeworth , & c . on education . I had previously seen him poring over Rousseau and Xenophon . He read them faithfully , and dis- cussed them ...
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