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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... 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 in plain characters on one of the tables , with his finger , " Mr. B's compliments ...
... 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 in plain characters on one of the tables , with his finger , " Mr. B's compliments ...
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... uncon- sciously I turned to our guest , and his polite- ness could scarcely prevent his starting when I screamed , " Allow me to give you a piece of ham , sir . " ( f . ' Clarissa , " said Mr. Packard , greatly amused , " Mr. Stevens is ...
... uncon- sciously I turned to our guest , and his polite- ness could scarcely prevent his starting when I screamed , " Allow me to give you a piece of ham , sir . " ( f . ' Clarissa , " said Mr. Packard , greatly amused , " Mr. Stevens is ...
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