Introduction: Eccentric Domesticity -- Her Father's Best Boy: Catharine Beecher and Margaret Fuller -- Fatherless Daughters: Sarah Josepha Hale and Fanny Fern -- Patronymics, Property, and Proper Naming -- Domestic Masquerade -- The Domestic Manners of American Ladies -- Domesticated Eloquence -- The Difference Between Authors and Servants -- Domesticating Pedagogy -- Domesticity with A Difference.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.