The young housewife's counsellor and friend
Subtitle: containing directions in every department of housekeeping : including the duties of wife and mother
By: by Mary Mason
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: American Cooking; Southern style; Cooking; Household supplies; Home economics; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Mrs. Mason's new cookery.; North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Typical of late 19th century literature counselling women on domesticity, this book offers women advice on managing a household, including the training and daily management of the slaves and caring for a family. Also includes many recipes and household cures, aimed especially at Southern housewives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2001).

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: The young housewife's counsellor and friend : containing directions in every department of housekeeping : including the duties of wife and mother / by Mrs. Mary Mason. New York : E.J. Hale & son, 1875. 380 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. "Published by the Protestant Episcopal Church Book Society, New York." Includes index. On cover: Mrs. Mason's new cookery.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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