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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A House Hold Manual...Together with A Complete Cookery Book by Holloway, Laura C - 1887
by Holloway, Laura C
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A House Hold Manual...Together with A Complete Cookery Book
by Holloway, Laura C
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Chicago and Philadelphia: L. P. Miller & Company, 1887. Title page dated 1887. Useful tips for Victorian homemakers, including baby care, advice about servants, sports and games for ladies, developing a library, care of the sick, home economics, decorating, growing plants, laundry, visitors, pets, duty of parents to children, death in the home, the kitchen, and many recipes. Publisher's full brown calf leather with dual black spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers, 8.75 inches tall, 2 inches thick. Covers scuffed with a bit of surface separation to the lower front joint (covers well attached), small chip to spine head, another internal chip to spine label, front hinge good but rear hinge repaired internally some time ago, binding sound, pages clean with old tape reinforcement to the far upper and lower margins of a couple of pages, additional recipe clippings taped on to a couple of blank pages near the end, plus pencil notes on the back of the rear free endpaper.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Fair
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher L. P. Miller & Company
- Place of Publication Chicago and Philadelphia
- Date Published 1887
- Keywords VICTORIAN HOUSEKEEPING COOKING RECIPES
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A Household Manual
by Holloway Laura C (Laura Carter)
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- 9781017091229 / 1017091226
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Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A Household Manual. Containing Hints and Helps for Home Making; Home Furnishing; Decorations Amusements; Health Directions; The Sick Room; The Nursery; The Library; The Laundry; etc. together with a Complete Cookery Book
by Holloway, Laura C
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Philadelphia, et al.: Garretson & Co.; Bradley, Garretson & Co.; John Garretson NONE [NONE] 1885. (hardcover) xix, 578pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Green cloth, with front board decorated and embossed in various vignettes with gilt. And dark brown. Title in gilt on the front in circular 'frame', now faded. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Overll, very good condition. Lightly starting at front hinge and again between pages xii and xiii; that said remains solid. There is light damp staining to the front free endpaper and a front paper blank, however, there is no smell. A rare and interesiting look into the daily lives of middle class women and the domestic science and upkeep associated with their homes, from over 130 years ago. Fascinating, really..
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A Household Manual
by Holloway Laura C (Laura Carter)
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- New
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781017086201 / 1017086206
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Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A Household Manual...Together With A Complete Cookery Book
by Holloway, Laura C
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Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Beloit, Wis: The Inter-State Publishing House, 1884. Leather bound. Fine. Deluxe morocco binding, octavo size, 577 pp. Laura Carter Holloway (1843 (some sources cite 1848)-1930) was a prolific author; upon publication of her first book in 1870, "The Ladies of the White House", she became independently wealthy. Her interests were varied, and included "theosophy, the Shakers, phrenology, the occult, vegetarianism and social reform." Through the vagaries of life, and after the death of her only son in 1914, she "entered a period of financial difficulties and depression. The last years of her life were marred by poverty and struggles over the manuscript of a book..." (n.b., info and quotes from the web site of the Brooklyn Library). We find it interesting, from our perspective today, that a woman who was supporting herself as an author and with such interests as she, would write "The Hearthstone", seemingly focused on female domesticity. Upon reading the Preface, one realizes that her aim was to help…
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