The American Woman's Home / Edition 1

by Catharine E. Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nicole Tonkovich

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813530796
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Nicole Tonkovich is associate professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Sarah Josepha Hale, Catharine Beecher, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text
THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

A valuable book made conveniently available.

Choice

Students of nineteenth-century domestic life, and libraries that cater to them, will want to have a copy of this volume in their collection.

Documentary Editing (December 2002)

A valuable book made conveniently available.-- "Choice"

Students of nineteenth-century domestic life, and libraries that cater to them, will want to have a copy of this volume in their collection.-- "Documentary Editing (December 2002)"

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