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.


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