In the New England Fashion - Reshaping Womens Lives in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback
In the New England Fashion - Reshaping Womens Lives in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the…
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In the New England Fashion - Reshaping Womens Lives in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback
In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Kelly describes their attempts to make sense of the changes in their world by elaborating values connected to rural life. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E.
Equally important, she demonstrates how these writings afford a fuller understanding of the capitalist transformation of the countryside and the origins of the Northern middle class.Provincial women exalted rural life for its republican simplicity while condemning that of the city for its aristocratic pretension. In her hands, the narratives reveal the dramatic ways female lives were reshaped during the antebellum period and the women's own contribution to those developments.
Womens Lives and Clothes in WW2
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London in the Nineteenth Century