The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / Wendy Gamber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamber, Wendy, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lodging-houses--United States--History--19th century.

Lodging-houses.

Boardinghouses--United States--History--19th century.

Boardinghouses.

United States--Social conditions--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 213 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction : Houses and homes

Away from home

Keeping house

"The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living"

Boarders' beefs

Nests of crime and dens of vice

"Will they board, or keep house?"

Charity begins at home

Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-0259-9

OCLC:

794701449