A young married woman tells, sketch by sketch, of the perplexities of running a household in nineteenth-century America. She speculates disastrously in china ware, battles a succession of cooks and maids, learns to manage money and moods, and mixes comic domestic episodes with graver lessons on patience and kindness.
Lively domestic sketches by the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, a window on the Victorian American home. Download the free EPUB.