Author: Kelly, Catherine E.
Title: In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1999). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiii,258 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: "It Seems Like a Little Paradise Compared with a City"; "All the Work of the Family"; "Never Was Separation So Painful"; "With Joy I Bear His Name & Pay the Duties Which His Virtue Claims"; "Old People Never Believe in Love"; "Simple Ideals of Living"; "All the Articificial Barriers Which Society Sometimes Erects, Appeared to be Thrown Down"; " Joining Anon in Fashion's Noisy Din"; "An Elevated Tone to the Whole Town".

Keywords: American Social History, New England, Women's, Middle Class Women, Historical, Sociology, , ,