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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... poor things ! " The same kind friend gave me a rag - bag , and repeated to me an anecdote she was fond of relating , of a lady in Cambridge , who sold rags enough at four cents a pound to buy herself a silver porringer . " And mind ...
... poor things ! " The same kind friend gave me a rag - bag , and repeated to me an anecdote she was fond of relating , of a lady in Cambridge , who sold rags enough at four cents a pound to buy herself a silver porringer . " And mind ...
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... - finger of her 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.
... - finger of her 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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... poor Curry sailed on . " Time passed on , and the ring was a kind of comfort to me . Sometimes I was so foolish as to talk to it , as if it could understand C 2 A HOUSEKEEPER . 29 bours, one of the crew came, and said...
... poor Curry sailed on . " Time passed on , and the ring was a kind of comfort to me . Sometimes I was so foolish as to talk to it , as if it could understand C 2 A HOUSEKEEPER . 29 bours, one of the crew came, and said...
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... poor Cinda's ears in her culinary domain , and it required all the inducements I could urge to prevail on her to carry the tray again . Curiosity , which seemed to be her master- passion , prompted her to try on the garments of others ...
... poor Cinda's ears in her culinary domain , and it required all the inducements I could urge to prevail on her to carry the tray again . Curiosity , which seemed to be her master- passion , prompted her to try on the garments of others ...
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... poor Cinda started in dismay at beholding us . She took off the scarf in her hurry , but forgot the cap , which was of a very light material , and began making up the bed with great zeal . Just at this crisis the butcher knocked at the ...
... poor Cinda started in dismay at beholding us . She took off the scarf in her hurry , but forgot the cap , which was of a very light material , and began making up the bed with great zeal . Just at this crisis the butcher knocked at the ...
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