CONTENTS
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| INTRODUCTORY NOTE | [vii] | |
| HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS | ||
| I. | The Ravages of a Carpet | [1] |
| II. | Homekeeping vs. Housekeeping | [16] |
| III. | What is a Home? | [33] |
| IV. | The Economy of the Beautiful | [54] |
| V. | Raking Up the Fire | [69] |
| VI. | The Lady who does her own Work | [85] |
| VII. | What can be got in America | [101] |
| VIII. | Economy | [112] |
| IX. | Servants | [133] |
| X. | Cookery | [153] |
| XI. | Our House | [182] |
| XII. | Home Religion | [212] |
| THE CHIMNEY-CORNER | ||
| I. | What will You do with Her? or, The Woman Question | [231] |
| II. | Woman’s Sphere | [249] |
| III. | A Family Talk on Reconstruction | [274] |
| IV. | Is Woman a Worker? | [300] |
| V. | The Transition | [316] |
| VI. | Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health | [330] |
| VII. | How shall we entertain our Company? | [347] |
| VIII. | How shall we be Amused? | [362] |
| IX. | Dress, or Who makes the Fashions | [374] |
| X. | What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress? | [395] |
| XI. | The Cathedral | [412] |
| XII. | The New Year | [425] |
| XIII. | The Noble Army of Martyrs | [438] |
| OUR SECOND GIRL | [449] | |
| A SCHOLAR’S ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY | [473] | |
| TRIALS OF A HOUSEKEEPER | [487] | |
The frontispiece is from a photograph of Mrs. Stowe taken in 1884. The vignette of Mrs. Stowe’s later Hartford home is from a drawing by Charles Copeland.