| Description |
224 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings ; 2001 |
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Annual proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; v. 26 |
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Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; 2001.
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| Note |
The 26th annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife held June 15-17, 2001 in Deerfield, Mass. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220). |
| Contents |
Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard -- Increase and vantage: women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow -- Constance Strong's diary: women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford -- "That leisure hour I seldom find": Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn -- "The fruit of my industry": economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens -- One in every village: women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen -- Number, please: New Hampshire predial telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer -- "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave": the abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer -- A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles -- Nantucket's memory keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell -- The housewife as healer: medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum -- Women's travail, men's labor: birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Eggs on the sand: domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller -- Polish: the maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- New England -- History -- Congresses.
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Women -- New England -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Benes, Peter.
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Benes, Jane Montague.
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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.
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