Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author
Publisher
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The American woman's home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century's most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the era's most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the post-Civil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beecher's influential Treatise on domestic...