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Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 971
Book Description
Harper's Bazaar
Author: Harper's Weekly
Author: The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward BeecherPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Our Own Snug Fireside
Author: Jane C. NylanderPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300059533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and exchanging food and services. Probing behind the many myths that have grown up about this era, Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England. "Nylander . . . invites her readers to enjoy her copious knowledge of the interiors and domestic management of late-18th-century New England homes. The imaginatively illustrated [book] is dedicated to the notion that the details of everyday life form the core of human experience."--Martha Saxton, The New York Times Book Review A fact-filled, copiously illustrated, revealing survey of Yankee life and households in an earlier time, . . . informative and valuable for its many glimpses of American interiors."--Kirkus Reviews "A delightfully intimate portrayal of New England home life. . . . Enlivened by 162 period illustrations, [Nylander's] survey affords a rare glimpse of middle- and upper-class housework, clothing, kitchens, diet, socializing and much else."--Publishers Weekly A century-long portrait of day-to-day activities in a New England home. . . . Nylander's nitty-gritty approach is absorbing. . . . Photographs from various historical societies along with period sketches and paintings add pizzazz and authenticity."--Booklist "A visual and narrative feast."--Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania
The Nation
Author: Harper's Young People
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Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
New England Journal of Education
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description