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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... woman's glance I saw the conse- quences . Nancy laid aside a raw steak , that she was making tender by her passionate treatment , and walked up stairs in high dudgeon , not for- getting to take up the wages which Edward had thrown on ...
... woman's glance I saw the conse- quences . Nancy laid aside a raw steak , that she was making tender by her passionate treatment , and walked up stairs in high dudgeon , not for- getting to take up the wages which Edward had thrown on ...
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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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... woman ? " & c . , Curry was not content with the simple bowing affirmative . Something seemed struggling in his mind . He grasped Sally's hand , and with such an utterance as she told me he had used on the night her mother died , said ...
... woman ? " & c . , Curry was not content with the simple bowing affirmative . Something seemed struggling in his mind . He grasped Sally's hand , and with such an utterance as she told me he had used on the night her mother died , said ...
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... woman in the kitchen , " ( the New - England circumlocution for cook ) . She confessed that after I had retired she thought it would do no harm to read a little , and being " dozy , " she let the kitchen 66 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... woman in the kitchen , " ( the New - England circumlocution for cook ) . She confessed that after I had retired she thought it would do no harm to read a little , and being " dozy , " she let the kitchen 66 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... a child scream , it was she , notwithstanding my woman in the kitchen would occasionally put her head into the parlour door and call out , " Polly , Polly , why don't you shue * the child ? " but alas A HOUSEKEEPER . 71.
... a child scream , it was she , notwithstanding my woman in the kitchen would occasionally put her head into the parlour door and call out , " Polly , Polly , why don't you shue * the child ? " but alas A HOUSEKEEPER . 71.
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