House and home / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editor, Ross W. Beales, Jr.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Benes, Peter.

Benes, Jane Montague.

Beales, Ross W.

Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.

Conference Name:

Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (13th : 1988 : Durham, N.H.)

Series:

Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 1988.

Annual proceedings / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--Social life and customs--Congresses.

New England.

Home--New England--History--Congresses.

Home.

Families--New England--History--Congresses.

Families.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Boston, Mass.] : Boston University, ©1990.

Contents:

Provision for daughters: the accounts of Samuel Lane / Jane C. Nylander

The "single-parent" households of Portland's Wadsworth-Longfellow House / Joyce Butler

Murder in Middletown: lower-class life in Connecticut in 1815 / Doris Sherrow

"Slavish" and other female work in the Parkman household, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1724-1782 / Ross W. Beales, Jr.

The dilemmas of domestic service in New England, 1750-1850 / Charles A. Hammond

Home fires: cookstoves in American culture, 1815-1900 / Priscilla J. Brewer

"A great help to many families": straw braiding in Massachusetts before 1825 / Caroline Sloat

Eliza Wildes Bourne of Kennebunk: professional fancy weaver, 1800-1820 / Sandra S. Armentrout

Selected bibliography on aspects of house and home in New England and the Northeast before 1870 / Gerald W.R. Ward.

Notes:

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife was held on July 16 and 17, 1988 in Durham, New Hampshire.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-131).

Other Format:

Online version: House and home.

OCLC:

24406578