
Ebook: Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860
Author: Jane C. Nylander
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- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Knopf
- Language: English
- epub
This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and exchanging food and services. Probing behind the many myths that have grown up about this era, Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England.
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