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050 00 $aHD8039.H842$bG77 1997
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100 1 $aRobertson, Una A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86020735
245 13 $aAn illustrated history of the housewife, 1650-1950 /$cUna A Robertson.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1997.
300 $axii, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tWho are the Housewives? --$gCh. 2.$tFuels and Fireplaces --$gCh. 3.$tLighting the Home --$gCh. 4.$tWater and Drainage --$gCh. 5.$tThe Workforce --$gCh. 6.$tCleaning: Methods and Mixtures --$gCh. 7.$tLaundrywork --$gCh. 8.$tThe Means of Cooking --$gCh. 9.$tProvisioning the Household --$gCh. 10.$tStorage and Preservation of Food --$gCh. 11.$tMeals and Mealtimes --$gCh. 12.$tDrinks --$gCh. 13.$tPastimes and Pleasures Around the Home --$gCh. 14.$tPastimes and Pleasures Outside the Home --$gCh. 15.$tThe Housewife in the Wider World.
520 $aThroughout history, effort, enterprise and energy have been expended by women in the ways of the household: cooking, cleaning, lighting, heating and laundrywork. This highly illustrated and delightfully written account looks at the changing role of the housewife over three hundred years. The period covered was one of immense social change - new social and family relationships, scientific advances and economic developments all had an effect on the housewife, some dramatic, others more gradual.
520 8 $aMuch of what we now take for granted - instant hot water, heat and light at the flick of a switch, fresh food all the year round - would have been inconceivable to the many 'household managers' represented in this book. Some of the evidence comes from the hands of housewives themselves via account books and domestic memoranda. Other material has been gathered from biographies, letters and 'improving tracts' aimed at housewives and the staff they employed.
520 8 $aThe lives of women from all walks of life and from all parts of Britain are discussed, creating a convincing picture of the similarities as well as the differences that have characterised women's domestic work from the early modern to the post-war period.
650 0 $aHousewives$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hHD8039.H842$iG77 1997