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A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

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A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

Catharine Esther Beecher

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Catharine Beecher believed American women held the hardest job in the republic. Her treatise on domestic economy names their peculiar responsibilities and difficulties, then lays out remedies: training, system, and respect for the work of a household. The volume that argued housekeeping deserved study, not luck. Meet the woman who turned home into a profession.

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56 chapters

  1. 1A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY,
  2. 2FOR THE USE OF YOUNG LADIES AT HOME, AND AT SCHOOL.
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
  6. 6DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
  7. 7CHAPTER I. THE PECULIAR RESPONSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
  8. 8CHAPTER II. DIFFICULTIES PECULIAR TO AMERICAN WOMEN.
  9. 9CHAPTER III. REMEDIES FOR THE PRECEDING DIFFICULTIES.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV. ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY AS A BRANCH OF STUDY.
  11. 11CHAPTER V. ON THE CARE OF HEALTH.
  12. 12BONES.
  13. 13MUSCLES.
  14. 14NERVES.
  15. 15BLOOD-VESSELS.
  16. 16ORGANS OF DIGESTION AND RESPIRATION.
  17. 17OF THE SKIN.
  18. 18CHAPTER VI. ON HEALTHFUL FOOD.

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