Author: Poncy Duane (author)
Publisher: Habit of Rainy Nights Press
ISBN: 0974668354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Bartlett House
Author: Poncy Duane (author)
Publisher: Habit of Rainy Nights Press
ISBN: 0974668354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Habit of Rainy Nights Press
ISBN: 0974668354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Keeping House
Author: Virginia Bartlett
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns. Keeping House: Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850, tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes.Intrigued by late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks in the collection of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia Bartlett wanted to find out more about women living in the region during that period. Quoting from journals, letters, cookbooks, travelers' accounts - approving and critical - memoirs, documents, and newspapers, she offers us voices of women and men commenting seriously and humorously on what was going on around them.The text is well-illustrated with contemporaneous art- engravings, apaintings, drawings, and cartoons. Of special interest are color and black-and-white photographs of furnishings, housewares, clothing, and portraits from the collections of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.This is not a sentimental account. Bartlett makes clear how little say women had about their lives and how little protection they could expect from the law, especially on matters relating to property. Their world was one of marked contrasts: life in a log cabin with bare necessities and elegant dinners in the homes of Pittsburgh's military and entrepreneurial elite; rural women in homespun and affluent Pittsburgh ladies in imported fashions. When the book begins, families are living in fear of Indian attacks; as it ends, the word "shawling" has come into use as the polite term for pregnancy, referring to women's attempt to hide their condition with cleverly draped shawls. The menacing frontier has given way to American-style gentility.An introduction by Jack D. Warren, University of Virginia, sets the scene with a discussion of the early peopling of the region and places the book within the context of women's studies.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns. Keeping House: Women's Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850, tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes.Intrigued by late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks in the collection of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia Bartlett wanted to find out more about women living in the region during that period. Quoting from journals, letters, cookbooks, travelers' accounts - approving and critical - memoirs, documents, and newspapers, she offers us voices of women and men commenting seriously and humorously on what was going on around them.The text is well-illustrated with contemporaneous art- engravings, apaintings, drawings, and cartoons. Of special interest are color and black-and-white photographs of furnishings, housewares, clothing, and portraits from the collections of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.This is not a sentimental account. Bartlett makes clear how little say women had about their lives and how little protection they could expect from the law, especially on matters relating to property. Their world was one of marked contrasts: life in a log cabin with bare necessities and elegant dinners in the homes of Pittsburgh's military and entrepreneurial elite; rural women in homespun and affluent Pittsburgh ladies in imported fashions. When the book begins, families are living in fear of Indian attacks; as it ends, the word "shawling" has come into use as the polite term for pregnancy, referring to women's attempt to hide their condition with cleverly draped shawls. The menacing frontier has given way to American-style gentility.An introduction by Jack D. Warren, University of Virginia, sets the scene with a discussion of the early peopling of the region and places the book within the context of women's studies.
The House on Brooke Street
Author: Neil Bartlett
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
London. Christmas 1956. Lonely 53 year old Mr Page attempts to set his life in order dealing with the death of his lover, and his own sexual leanings.
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
London. Christmas 1956. Lonely 53 year old Mr Page attempts to set his life in order dealing with the death of his lover, and his own sexual leanings.
The National Register of Historic Places
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Connecticut
Author: Federal Writer's Project for the State of Connecticut
Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540075
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540075
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Signers of the Declaration
Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Introduces the letters of the alphabet through the antics of various animals from Arnie Alligator to a zany zebra.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Introduces the letters of the alphabet through the antics of various animals from Arnie Alligator to a zany zebra.
The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Signers of the Declaration
Author: Robert G. Ferris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Kill Now, Talk Forever
Author: Richard Newby
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420843931
Category : Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Principally an abridgement of the transcript of the trial as published in: The Sacco-Vanzetti case. 2nd ed. Mamaroneck, N.Y. : P. P. Appel, 1969; followed by a collection of remarks over the past 80 years about the trial and its significance.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420843931
Category : Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Principally an abridgement of the transcript of the trial as published in: The Sacco-Vanzetti case. 2nd ed. Mamaroneck, N.Y. : P. P. Appel, 1969; followed by a collection of remarks over the past 80 years about the trial and its significance.
Here was the Revolution
Author: Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description