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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... mother's too . With what delight did she display those sums , that rose like Banquo's ghosts , " And drew at each remove a lengthening chain . " At the age of eight years I recollect seeing my mother reading a thin black book , which ...
... mother's too . With what delight did she display those sums , that rose like Banquo's ghosts , " And drew at each remove a lengthening chain . " At the age of eight years I recollect seeing my mother reading a thin black book , which ...
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... mother to take tea sociably with her friends at four o'clock , carrying my knitting- work for occupation . My accomplishments are soon told . I opened an exhibition ball with one of the slow min- uets of the last century , and I cannot ...
... mother to take tea sociably with her friends at four o'clock , carrying my knitting- work for occupation . My accomplishments are soon told . I opened an exhibition ball with one of the slow min- uets of the last century , and I cannot ...
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... descending , while with sidelong glances , and sidelong steps , with measured obeisances , we evolved the " poetry of motion . " I commenced learning music upon an old spinet of my mother's ; but her indulgence soon imported A HOUSEKEEPER .
... descending , while with sidelong glances , and sidelong steps , with measured obeisances , we evolved the " poetry of motion . " I commenced learning music upon an old spinet of my mother's ; but her indulgence soon imported A HOUSEKEEPER .
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Caroline Howard Gilman. spinet of my mother's ; but her indulgence soon imported for me a harpsichord of the latest fashion , and though my more fastidious ear may be critically pleased with the improvements in the modern piano - forte ...
Caroline Howard Gilman. spinet of my mother's ; but her indulgence soon imported for me a harpsichord of the latest fashion , and though my more fastidious ear may be critically pleased with the improvements in the modern piano - forte ...
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... mother was proud to say that I could man- ufacture a frilled shirt in two days , with stitches that required a microscope to detect them . I made my own bed , swept and dusted the apart- ments , mended my own clothes , and when pud ...
... mother was proud to say that I could man- ufacture a frilled shirt in two days , with stitches that required a microscope to detect them . I made my own bed , swept and dusted the apart- ments , mended my own clothes , and when pud ...
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