Title So sweet to labor : rural women in America, 1865-1895 / [compiled by] Norton Juster.

Publication Info.

New York : Viking Press, 1979.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials	301.412	Check Shelf

Description	293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages [285]-293.
Contents	pt. 1. Image and identity. Wife ; Mother ; Daughter ; Homemaker -- pt. 2. Burdens, costs, responses. Overwork and isolation ; Illness and decline ; The homemaker professionalized ; Rights and reactions.
Subject	Rural women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author	Juster, Norton, 1929-2021
ISBN	0670654833

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