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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... stairs in high dudgeon , not for- getting to take up the wages which Edward had thrown on the table . Five minutes after , we heard her departing tramp on the stairs . It was no time for crying now . Little Polly and I had to go to ...
... stairs in high dudgeon , not for- getting to take up the wages which Edward had thrown on the table . Five minutes after , we heard her departing tramp on the stairs . It was no time for crying now . Little Polly and I had to go to ...
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... stairs , " had suffered his slippers , coat , books , & c . to accumulate with utter uncon- sciousness of the effect ; no dusting - cloth had passed , like the wing of a good angel , over the furniture , and a waggish friend had written ...
... stairs , " had suffered his slippers , coat , books , & c . to accumulate with utter uncon- sciousness of the effect ; no dusting - cloth had passed , like the wing of a good angel , over the furniture , and a waggish friend had written ...
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... " Marcy me , marcy me ! " Following the sound , and descending the stairs , we found Mrs. Sliter lying at the foot , who with her meat and potatoes had rolled down came , into the ash - heap , and , in attempting 130 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... " Marcy me , marcy me ! " Following the sound , and descending the stairs , we found Mrs. Sliter lying at the foot , who with her meat and potatoes had rolled down came , into the ash - heap , and , in attempting 130 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... stairs , we never could comprehend . Her complaints were eloquent enough , min- gled with some irritability at our ill - restrained laughter . In arranging the bed - rooms the following morning she broke a toilet - glass , and was in ...
... stairs , we never could comprehend . Her complaints were eloquent enough , min- gled with some irritability at our ill - restrained laughter . In arranging the bed - rooms the following morning she broke a toilet - glass , and was in ...
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... I carried the keys up stairs . Ingols was very amiable , and our week passed happily away . Edward returned , and took no notice of the withdrawal of the decanters . I had retired to my bedroom early one even- ing 146 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... I carried the keys up stairs . Ingols was very amiable , and our week passed happily away . Edward returned , and took no notice of the withdrawal of the decanters . I had retired to my bedroom early one even- ing 146 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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