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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... hand . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS , No. 82 CLIPP - STREET , AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES . [ Entered according to the Act of Congress , in. 1834 . RECOLLECTIONS OF A ...
... hand . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS , No. 82 CLIPP - STREET , AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES . [ Entered according to the Act of Congress , in. 1834 . RECOLLECTIONS OF A ...
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... hands raised , the top of each fore - finger making a circle with the thumb , then slowly descending , while with sidelong glances , and sidelong steps , with measured obeisances , we evolved the " poetry of motion . " I commenced ...
... hands raised , the top of each fore - finger making a circle with the thumb , then slowly descending , while with sidelong glances , and sidelong steps , with measured obeisances , we evolved the " poetry of motion . " I commenced ...
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... hand my friends may have , When I am dead and laid in grave . This sampler . was a matter of curiosity , and sometimes of ridicule , to my children ; but now that they perceive my gray hairs and increasing infirmities , I find the ...
... hand my friends may have , When I am dead and laid in grave . This sampler . was a matter of curiosity , and sometimes of ridicule , to my children ; but now that they perceive my gray hairs and increasing infirmities , I find the ...
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... new carpet , new chairs , and new mahogany , with its virgin hue , undarkened by wax and turpentine , are all before me . My mother was with me , and though she held one of my hands , and my husband the other , 16 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... new carpet , new chairs , and new mahogany , with its virgin hue , undarkened by wax and turpentine , are all before me . My mother was with me , and though she held one of my hands , and my husband the other , 16 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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Caroline Howard Gilman. of my hands , and my husband the other , I could not restrain my tears from falling , happy though they were . I felt half ashamed to praise the parlour fur- niture , though I secretly said , " It is mine . " On ...
Caroline Howard Gilman. of my hands , and my husband the other , I could not restrain my tears from falling , happy though they were . I felt half ashamed to praise the parlour fur- niture , though I secretly said , " It is mine . " On ...
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