The Housekeeper's Week 1908 Marion Harland ~ Antique ~ Domestic Science ~ Housekeeping ~ Women at home

Title: The Housekeeper's Week

Author: Marion Harland [Mary Virginia Terhune] / Illustrated from photographs by Mary Taylor

Description: Blue-gray cloth covered boards; front cover features a navy-colored rug design and white lettering. Front cover is rubbed; spine toned; spots of soiling on rear cover; small nick in the cloth on the right edge of the spine. Previous owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper; some handwritten notes made on blank flyleaf at rear; fourteen pages near front with some pencil underlining, else interior is clean. Eight illustrated plates, including five photographs of women at work in the house and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Index. vii + 439 pages.

A 1908 cyclopedic guide to the care of the house by Mary Virginia Terhune (1830-1922), who write under the penname Marion Harland. The volume is arranged systematically, naming the chapters after the days of the week and giving in each comprehensive and detailed directions for each department of housekeeping. A substantial guide to keeping a house in good order with efficiency. It covers the washing of clothes (including starching and bluing, methods specific to treating woolens, colored cottons and linens, silks, the cleaning non-washable clothes, and removing stains), ironing, baking and bread-making, renovating odd and ends (shoes, hats, feather pillows, leather, ecru lace, etc.), dealing with household pests and vermin, washing floors, walls and their coverings, windows and furnishings, the care and cleaning of silver, china and glass, provisioning during the winter, sewing and mending, seasonal housecleaning, and the care of the body (including the home medicine chest, domestic surgery, and care of the sick).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place: Indianapolis
Year: 1908

Keywords: antique, domestic science, housekeeping, housewives, maid, women,