editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editor, Ross W. Beales, Jr.
Place of Publication
[Boston, Mass.]
Publisher
Boston University,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
136 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Annual proceedings / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; v. 13
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-131).
Contents
Chapters: Provision for daughters: the accounts of Samuel Lane by Jane C.Nylander /// The "single-parent" households of Portland's Wadsworth-Longfellow House by Joyce Butler /// Murder in Middletown:lower-class life in Connecticut in 1815 by Doris Sherrow /// "Slavish" and other female work in the Parkman household, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1724-1782 by Ross W. Beales, Jr. /// The dilemmas of domestic service in New England, 1750-1850 by Charles A. Hammond /// Home fires: cookstoves in American culture, 1815-1900 by Priscilla J.Brewer /// "A great help to many families": straw braiding inMassachusetts before 1825 by Caroline Sloat /// Eliza WildesBourne of Kennebunk: professional fancy weaver, 1800-1820 by Sandra S. Armentrout /// Selected bibliography on aspects of house and home in New England and the Northeast before 1870 by Gerald W.R. Ward
