Title In the New England fashion : reshaping women's lives in the nineteenth century / Catherine E. Kelly.

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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	305.40974 K29I	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	ch. 1. "It seems like a little paradise compared with the city" -- ch. 2. "All the work of the family" -- ch. 3. "Never was a separation so painful" -- ch. 4. "With joy I bear his name and pay the duties which his virtue claims" -- ch. 5. "Old people never believe in love" -- ch. 6. "Simple ideals of living" -- ch. 7. "All the artificial barriers which society sometimes erects, appeared to be thrown down" -- ch. 8. "Joining anon in fashion's noisy din" -- ch. 9. "An elevated tone to the whole town."
Summary	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. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly describes women's attempts to make sense of the changes in their world by elaborating values connected to rural life. In her hands, the narratives reveal the dramatic ways female lives were reshaped during the antebellum period and the women's own contributions to those developments. 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.
Processing Action	Self-Renewing 2017 UoY
Subject	Women -- New England -- History.
	Rural women -- New England -- History.
	Rural women -- New England -- Social life and customs.
	Rural women -- New England -- Sociological aspects.
	Rural women -- Economic aspects -- New England.
	Rural women -- Economic aspects -- New England -- History.
	Middle class -- New England -- History.
	Vrouwen.
	Platteland.
	Middenklassen.
	Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
	Ländlicher Raum (DE-588)4034026-0
	Neuengland (DE-588)4075306-2
	Frau.
	Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
	Rural women. (OCoLC)fst01101883
	Rural women -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01101886
	Rural women -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01101910
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1800-1900
	Geschichte 1800-1900.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0801430763 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	9780801430763 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	0801487862
	9780801487866

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