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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... smiles . We scarcely felt the floor while moving with a step closely resembling the waltz , our hands raised , the top of each fore - finger making a circle with the thumb , then slowly descending , while with sidelong glances , and ...
... smiles . We scarcely felt the floor while moving with a step closely resembling the waltz , our hands raised , the top of each fore - finger making a circle with the thumb , then slowly descending , while with sidelong glances , and ...
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... smile , " to my own harpsichord . My sampler was one of unrivalled beauty . It possessed every shade and glory of tent- stitch . At the upper corners were cherubs ' heads and wings . Under the alphabets stood Adam and Eve , draperied ...
... smile , " to my own harpsichord . My sampler was one of unrivalled beauty . It possessed every shade and glory of tent- stitch . At the upper corners were cherubs ' heads and wings . Under the alphabets stood Adam and Eve , draperied ...
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... smiling , " am I to lose you on Sunday night ? " " I am afeard so , ma'am , " replied she , sliding behind the door . " Don't be ashamed , Sally , " said I. " I have shown you such an example of marrying one whom I preferred , that I am ...
... smiling , " am I to lose you on Sunday night ? " " I am afeard so , ma'am , " replied she , sliding behind the door . " Don't be ashamed , Sally , " said I. " I have shown you such an example of marrying one whom I preferred , that I am ...
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... rode away , Curry waved his red handkerchief , and Sally put her new cambric one to her eyes , be- tween tears and smiles . I never saw my pretty cook again . CHAPTER IV . CINDA TYLER . Where have you been. 32 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... rode away , Curry waved his red handkerchief , and Sally put her new cambric one to her eyes , be- tween tears and smiles . I never saw my pretty cook again . CHAPTER IV . CINDA TYLER . Where have you been. 32 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... at- tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- sistible A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
... at- tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- sistible A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
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