A cultural history that looks at Canadian housewives from 1600 through to the 1950s and includes amusing anecdotes, quotes, recipes, household hints, excerpts, period ads, and historical illustration.
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A cultural history that looks at Canadian housewives from 1600 through to the 1950s and includes amusing anecdotes, quotes, recipes, household hints, excerpts, period ads, and historical illustration.
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Fine. 1552857174. 256 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. "This cultural history describes how women triumphed over the tribulations of running a household in both turbulent and peaceful times...You may never look at your broom closet or stove in quite the same way again."-from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Lovely copy.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; HOME ECONOMICS HOUSEWIVES Canada History Housekeeping Wives Female.
With charming pictures and little known facts, this book by Neering gives women's work the tribute it has deserved all these years. While recording the work they were expected to do while keeping a stiff upper lip and recording quaint recipes like "nice cookies that will keep good three months", Neering captures the women's lives in all their dimensions. From writer wives with a hand in politics to the housewife as family nurse, the reader gets to see the variety of women who made this country their own back when it was far from easily inhabitable. The book is the most readable Canadian history book on a topic mostly ignored.
