Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425544355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Recollections of a Southern Matron. by Caroline Gilman.
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425544355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Recollections of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Recollections of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Recollections of a Housekeeper
Author: Caroline GilmanPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429010975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.
Recollections of a Southern Matron, and a New England Bride
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories
Author: Caroline Elizabeth MerrickPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465591753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
I have not written these memoirs entirely for the amusement or instruction of my contemporaries; but I shall feel rewarded if I elicit thereby the interest and sympathy which follows an honest effort to tell the truth in the recollections of one’s life—for, after all, truth is the chief virtue of history. My ancestry may be of as little importance in itself as this book is likely to be after the lapse of a few years; yet it is satisfactory to know that your family is respectable,—even if you cannot prove it to be so ancient that it has no beginning, and so worthy that it ought to have no end. I am willing, however, that my genealogy should be investigated; there are books giving the whole history; and it is surely an innocent and praiseworthy pride—that of good pedigree. I was born November 24th, 1825, at our plantation home, called Cottage Hall, in the parish of East Feliciana, in the State of Louisiana. My father was a man of firmness and of courage amounting to stoicism. He appeared calm and self-possessed under all circumstances. He ruled his own house, but so judicious was his management that even his slaves loved him. Though I was very young when my mother died, I can remember her and the great affection manifested for her by the entire family. While not realizing the importance of my loss, I knew enough to resent the coming of another to fill her place. My father said he wanted a good woman who could see that his family of six children were properly brought up and educated. His nephew, Dr. James Thomas, introduced him to Miss Susan Brewer, who he thought would fill all these requirements. The marriage was soon arranged, and I was brought home, to Cottage Hall, by my eldest sister, with whom I had been living. The other children had laid aside their mourning and I was informed that I also had new dresses; but I declined to wear them or to call the new mistress of the household by the name of “Mother,” which had been freely given her by the rest of the family. When my father lifted me from the carriage he said: “My child, I will now take you to your new mother.” As he kissed me affectionately I turned away and said: “I am not your child, and I have no mother now.” I have never forgotten the sad look he gave me nor the tenderness he manifested toward my waywardness as he took me in his arms and carried me into the house. I was a troublesome little girl with an impetuous temper; perhaps it was on this account that he often said: “This golden-haired darling is the dearest little one in the house—and the most exacting.” My father had a vein of quaint humor and abounded in proverbial wisdom. I have heard him say, “Yes, I have a very bad memory—I remember what should be forgotten.”
Recollections of a New England Bride and of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Recollections of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline (Howard) GilmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Recollections of a Southern Matron
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dialect literature, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching
Author: Fanny Jackson CoppinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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