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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... Lucy was the only pas- senger . It was a great unwieldy vehicle , with- out glasses , the leathern curtains flapping all around , the worn cushions as slippery as glass , and so little spring in its construction , that Lu- cy's slight ...
... Lucy was the only pas- senger . It was a great unwieldy vehicle , with- out glasses , the leathern curtains flapping all around , the worn cushions as slippery as glass , and so little spring in its construction , that Lu- cy's slight ...
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... Lucy drooped daily , struggling on ; I was often obliged to take her work from her forcibly , so conscientious was she . I sent for a physician . She met him with a gentle smile . After parting with her , he said to me , " There has ...
... Lucy drooped daily , struggling on ; I was often obliged to take her work from her forcibly , so conscientious was she . I sent for a physician . She met him with a gentle smile . After parting with her , he said to me , " There has ...
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... Lucy had laid her sewing on her lap , and sat with her hands , folded , as in revery . " I see , by your countenance , Mrs. Packard , " said she , " what Dr. Webster thinks of my case , and I am not very sorry . I am only sorry because ...
... Lucy had laid her sewing on her lap , and sat with her hands , folded , as in revery . " I see , by your countenance , Mrs. Packard , " said she , " what Dr. Webster thinks of my case , and I am not very sorry . I am only sorry because ...
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... Lucy's expres- sion . To be willing to leave this bright world , so full of the blossoms of hope and love , to quit the pure air , and the bright skies , and be the mouldering tenant of the solitary tomb - how could it be gain ? I ...
... Lucy's expres- sion . To be willing to leave this bright world , so full of the blossoms of hope and love , to quit the pure air , and the bright skies , and be the mouldering tenant of the solitary tomb - how could it be gain ? I ...
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... Lucy had a higher task to perform . It was , to direct my thoughts to a feeling of the value and necessity of Christianity ; to teach me to subdue the idolatry of my affec- tions , and give them a spiritual bias . She spoke of Edward as ...
... Lucy had a higher task to perform . It was , to direct my thoughts to a feeling of the value and necessity of Christianity ; to teach me to subdue the idolatry of my affec- tions , and give them a spiritual bias . She spoke of Edward as ...
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