A Boston judge and novelist turns to the practical problems of middle-class life in the 1890s. Starting with a bookkeeper who raised five children on two thousand two hundred dollars a year, Grant considers what a family can afford, the choice of a dwelling, house-furnishing and the kitchen, education, and the democratic changes he saw coming on both sides of the Atlantic.
Urbane and often funny, it shows how a Gilded Age household thought about money and the good life. Download the free EPUB.