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The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century [Paperback] A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women who worked for our country's independance in 1776 hoped the new Republic would grant them unprecedented power and influence. But it was not until the next century that a hardy group of path breakers began the slow march on the road to autonomy, a road American women continue to travel today. When The Other Civil War was first published in 1984, it was hailed as a thought-provoking narrative of women's lives, among the first books to bring together the new accomplishments of the then-infant discipline of women's history. This revised edition offers a thoroughly updated bibliography, including not only new books and articles but also Internet sources from the past fifteen years of innovative scholarship. Information and Books on The Nineteenth Century American Woman Young Housekeeper’s Friend by Mrs.Cornelius. The book was first written in 1850 and is now highly collectible if the book is in good to very good condition. Be expected to pay between $125 to $400 for the book in collectors condition. You can now have a reprint of the book for only for under $25! Click Here Order your Copy of The Young Housekeeper’s Friend . " A symmetrical education is extremely rare in this country. Nothing is more common than to see young ladies, whose intellectual attainments are of a high order, profoundly ignorant of the duties which all acknowledge to belong peculiarly to women. Consequently, many have to learn, after marriage, how to take care of a family; and thus their housekeeping is, frequently, little else than a series of experiments; often successful, resulting in mortification and discomfort in the parlor, and waste and ill temper in the kitchen. How often do we see the happiness of a husband abridged by the absence of skill, neatness, and economy in the wife! Perhaps he is not able to fix upon the cause, for he does not understand minutely enough the processes upon which domestic order depends, to analyze the difficulty; but he is conscious of discomfort. However improbable it may seem, the health of many a professional man is undermined, and his usefulness curtailed, if not sacrificed, because he habitually eats Bad Bread. If this subject has a direct bearing upon the health of families, so also does it exert an immediate influence upon their virtue. There are numerous instances of worthy merchants and mechanics, whose efforts are paralyzed, and their hopes chilled by the total failure of the wife in her sphere of duty; and who seek solace under their disappointment in the wine party, or the late convivial supper. Many a day laborer, on his return at evening from his hard toil, is repelled by the sight of a disorderly house, and a comfortless supper; and perhaps is met by a cold eye instead of the "thrifty wife’s smile; and he makes his escape to the grog shop, or the under-ground gambling room. Can any human agency hinder the series of calamities entailed by these things? No! the most active philanthropy, the best schemes of organized benevolence, cannot furnish a remedy, unless the springs of society are rectified. The domestic influence of woman is certainly one of these. Every woman is vested with a great degree of power over the happiness and virtue of others. She cannot escape using it, and she cannot innocently pervert it. There is no avenue or channel of society through which it may not send a salutary influence; and when rightly directly, it is unsurpassed by any human instrumentality in its purifying and restoring efficacy. |
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They Saw the Elephant by Jo Ann Levy Women in the California Gold Rush A good book for your collection, if you do not have it yet..It was published in 1992. This book gives a fresh look at women, single and married, Living in California during the California Gold Rush. How the women made their living and their daily lives make this book a wonderful read for the student or the layman. Order today and Save at Amazon.com Wyoming was the 1st state that gave women the right to vote in 1869!
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