From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807827024
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Social history; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; Home Economics (General); Sociology Of Women; Reference; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; USA; General; History / United States / 20th Century; Popular Culture - General; United States - 20th Century; History; Home economics
First sentence: In Julia McNair Wright's 1879 domestic-advice manual, The Complete Home, she took the voice of "Aunt Sophronia" and discussed home-making with her three nieces, Helen, Miriam, and Hester.