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 in good to very good
condition. Be expected to pay between $125 to $400 for the book
in collecters condition. You can now have a reprint of the book for
only $23.99 for your kitchen shelf.
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" 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. Eve woman is invested 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.
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Women know The way to
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They know a simple, merry,
tender
knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes, And stringing pretty words
that
make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty
words;
Which things are corals to cut
life upon Although such trifles. By Mrs. Browning: "Aurora Leigh".
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