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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... sorrow dry away amid their gentle but imperious demands ? Who has not seen op- pressed and tender women forget , in the routine which constitutes the comfort of a husband , that husband's unkindness ? And then , what an admirable outlet ...
... sorrow dry away amid their gentle but imperious demands ? Who has not seen op- pressed and tender women forget , in the routine which constitutes the comfort of a husband , that husband's unkindness ? And then , what an admirable outlet ...
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... sorrow , but in health and joy they light up with his father's hue . Notwithstanding Mr. Packard's arguments about expanding the chest , and though he was as brave as a lion , and , in the old uniform of " The Ancient and Honourable ...
... sorrow , but in health and joy they light up with his father's hue . Notwithstanding Mr. Packard's arguments about expanding the chest , and though he was as brave as a lion , and , in the old uniform of " The Ancient and Honourable ...
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... sorrow , for many years ; and is now sitting in her low chair , with a plain , re- spectable looking cap over her hair , which is just revealing the first tread of time , while my grand - daughter Clarissa is roguishly trying on her new ...
... sorrow , for many years ; and is now sitting in her low chair , with a plain , re- spectable looking cap over her hair , which is just revealing the first tread of time , while my grand - daughter Clarissa is roguishly trying on her new ...
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... sorrow was not of that sort that breaks the heart in silence , and I was in- terrupted by her dolorous voice , preceded by a long drawn sigh . " Death is a dreadful thing , ma'am . Mr. Sliter , poor man , that's dead and gone , and I ...
... sorrow was not of that sort that breaks the heart in silence , and I was in- terrupted by her dolorous voice , preceded by a long drawn sigh . " Death is a dreadful thing , ma'am . Mr. Sliter , poor man , that's dead and gone , and I ...
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... sorrow sadder than grief ; and her father , I tremble while I say it , cursed his first- born child , " Ingols had not tasted his draught while I was speaking , but held it in his hand , and when I ceased , quietly placed it on the ...
... sorrow sadder than grief ; and her father , I tremble while I say it , cursed his first- born child , " Ingols had not tasted his draught while I was speaking , but held it in his hand , and when I ceased , quietly placed it on the ...
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