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Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Chimney-Corner
The Chimney-Corner
Table of Contents
I. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH HER? OR, THE WOMAN QUESTION
II. WOMAN'S SPHERE
III. A FAMILY-TALK ON RECONSTRUCTION
IV. IS WOMAN A WORKER?
V. THE TRANSITION
VI. BODILY RELIGION: A SERMON ON GOOD HEALTH
VII. HOW SHALL WE ENTERTAIN OUR COMPANY?
VIII. HOW SHALL WE BE AMUSED?
IX. DRESS, OR WHO MAKES THE FASHIONS
X. WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF BEAUTY IN DRESS
XI. THE CATHEDRAL
XII. THE NEW YEAR
XIII. THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Think of a woman's calling clear-starching and ironing domestic drudgery, and to better the matter turning to type-setting in a grimy printing-office! Call the care of china and silver, the sweeping of carpets, the arrangement of parlors and sitting-rooms, drudgery; and go into a factory and spend the day amid the whir and clatter and thunder of machinery, inhaling an atmosphere loaded with wool and machine-grease, and keeping on the feet for twelve hours, nearly continuously! Think of its being called drudgery to take care of a clean, light, airy nursery, to wash and dress and care for two or three children, to mend their clothes, tell them stories, make them playthings, take them out walking or driving; and rather than this, to wear out the whole livelong day, extending often deep into the night, in endless sewing, in a close room of a dressmaking establishment! Is it any less drudgery to stand all day behind a counter, serving customers, than to tend a door-bell and wait on a table? For my part," said my wife, "I have often thought the matter over, and concluded, that, if I were left in straitened circumstances, as many are in a great city, I would seek a position as a servant in one of our good families."
"I envy the family that you even think of in that connection," said I. "I fancy the amazement which would take possession of them as you began to develop among them."
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