BEECHER, CATHARINE E. ,STOWE, PROFESSOR HARRIET BEECHER
The American Woman's Home
New Brunswick, N. J.: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center ; Rutgers University Press, 2002. 2d Paperback Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 0813530792. B & W ; 6 X 9 x 1 1/4"; xxxvi, 388 pages; Soft cover has brown spine with yellow lettering. Very slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Laid in is sheet with information about volunteering at the 'Harriet Beecher Stowe House' in Cincinnati, Ohio. Illustrated with b/w pictures. 'The American Womans Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. Today, the book can be likened to an anthology of household hints, with articles on cooking, decorating, housekeeping, child-rearing, hygiene, gardening, etiquette, and home amusements. The American Womans Home, almost a bible on domestic topics for Victorian women, illuminates womens roles a century and a half ago and can be used for comparison with modern theories on the role of women in the home and in society. Illustrated with the original engravings, this completely new edition offers a lively introduction by Nicole Tonkovich and notes linking the text to important historical, social, and cultural events of the late nineteenth century.' Bibliography; notes.. Fine .

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