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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... lamp oil on the finger , to which the olfactory sense , though driven back , returns with painful tenacity , to the ... lamps of their souls trimmed and burning A HOUSEKEEPER . 59.
... lamp oil on the finger , to which the olfactory sense , though driven back , returns with painful tenacity , to the ... lamps of their souls trimmed and burning A HOUSEKEEPER . 59.
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... lamp , they having been newly brought to this country . Being somewhat ambitious of intel- lectual display , and the time beginning to pass away when ladies did not feel themselves pinned to the same seat for three hours , we man- aged ...
... lamp , they having been newly brought to this country . Being somewhat ambitious of intel- lectual display , and the time beginning to pass away when ladies did not feel themselves pinned to the same seat for three hours , we man- aged ...
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Caroline Howard Gilman. by our new lamp , which attracted universal admiration . The Italian views became the chief subject of attention , but alas ! as our guests crowded around the table it was suddenly over- thrown , and the lamp ...
Caroline Howard Gilman. by our new lamp , which attracted universal admiration . The Italian views became the chief subject of attention , but alas ! as our guests crowded around the table it was suddenly over- thrown , and the lamp ...
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... detail of similar mis- fortunes . Who has not , after long deliberation , purchased a set of expensive lamps , only to suffocate himself or his friends with smoke ? - Who has not heard his glass shades pop one after 62 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... detail of similar mis- fortunes . Who has not , after long deliberation , purchased a set of expensive lamps , only to suffocate himself or his friends with smoke ? - Who has not heard his glass shades pop one after 62 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... lamp , that gave for five minutes a gleam of light , is " 6 Wisely kept for show . " But I have other themes of varied trouble to relate . One commencement day a large party assembled to dine with us , after the college exercises ...
... lamp , that gave for five minutes a gleam of light , is " 6 Wisely kept for show . " But I have other themes of varied trouble to relate . One commencement day a large party assembled to dine with us , after the college exercises ...
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