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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... children ; but now that they perceive my gray hairs and increasing infirmities , I find the sampler neatly folded and laid aside , and sometimes a conscious look re- veals to me that they think I may soon be 10 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... children ; but now that they perceive my gray hairs and increasing infirmities , I find the sampler neatly folded and laid aside , and sometimes a conscious look re- veals to me that they think I may soon be 10 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... child , com- forting myself , however , with the idea that I should compose myself and bathe my eyes be- fore Edward came home . But that was not to be . With a young husband's impatience , he had hurried through his business , and ...
... child , com- forting myself , however , with the idea that I should compose myself and bathe my eyes be- fore Edward came home . But that was not to be . With a young husband's impatience , he had hurried through his business , and ...
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... left hand , and said , " My mother , ma'am , was a poor woman in Salem , the widow of a sea - captain . He was ket on a voyage , and she fell sick , declining , like . I was her only child . It was 26 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... left hand , and said , " My mother , ma'am , was a poor woman in Salem , the widow of a sea - captain . He was ket on a voyage , and she fell sick , declining , like . I was her only child . It was 26 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... child to her . Once he began to tell a sea story , to try and cheer me up , but he found he made me cry more , because it didn't seem somehow re- spectful to talk of the things of life by a death- bed , and he stopped talking , and only ...
... child to her . Once he began to tell a sea story , to try and cheer me up , but he found he made me cry more , because it didn't seem somehow re- spectful to talk of the things of life by a death- bed , and he stopped talking , and only ...
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... 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 the remains of the beef and poultry , and one would ...
... 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 the remains of the beef and poultry , and one would ...
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