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100	1		_aNylander, Jane C., _d1938- _925838
245	1	0	_aOur own snug fireside : _bimages of the New England home, 1760-1860 /
260			_aNew York : _bKnopf : _bDistributed by Random House, _c1993.
300			_axiv, 317 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-310) and index.
505	0		_aPreface: Great Neatness and Convenience -- Ch. I. Introduction: Glimpses of the New England Home -- Ch. II. Our Great Family -- Ch. III. Going to Housekeeping -- Ch. IV. Frosty Mornings and Stinging Fingers: The Effects of Winter -- Ch. V. Clean, Bright, and Comfortable: Dimensions of Housework -- Ch. VI. Clean and Decent: A Family's Clothing -- Ch. VII. Toward Our Mutual Support -- Ch. VIII. A Comfortable Sufficiency: Food and the New England Kitchen -- Ch. IX. The Pleasure of Our Friends and Neighbors -- Ch. X. The One Day Above All Others: New England Thanksgiving.
520			_aIn this portrayal of home life in New England from the years preceding the American Revolution to the eve of the Civil War, Jane Nylander explores both everyday realities and the myths that have obscured them.
520	8		_aShe shows how, thanks to the nineteenth century's literary, historical, antiquarian, and art movements - from the romantic visions of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe through the paintings of Frank Henry Shapleigh and the carefully staged photographs of Wallace Nutting - the New England family home was idealized as warm, welcoming, comfortable, unchanging, and self-sufficient, and became representative, around the world, of the American domestic scene.
520	8		_aThe thump of the churn and the whir of the spinning wheel were seen as the heartbeats of a daily life that was perpetually "colonial" and "rural." For the most part, the growing reality of mill towns and burgeoning cities was ignored.
520	8		_aUsing early records, surviving objects, and recent research, Nylander examines the prevailing assumptions about early New England, identifies the degree to which they were justified, describes gender roles, defines the complex nature of household and neighborhood economics, and suggests what part of the idealized image was actually true.
520	8		_aShe focuses on the rhythms of life and the changes in domestic spaces and practices which occurred in response to factors as diverse as prosperity and poverty, changing family size and advancing age, severity of season, community ritual, economic and kinship networks, and the impact of the industrial revolution.
520	8		_aBecause this book is centered in the home, its primary characters are women and its primary sources the writings of such diarists as Sarah Snell Bryant, a doctor's wife; Elizabeth Porter Phelps, daughter and wife of prosperous farmers; and Ruth Henshaw Bascom, married to a minister. Here are the intimate details of their household work and management, their social life and celebrations, their contributions to the household economy, and their care for family and community.
520	8		_aThrough them Jane Nylander opens the doors of their houses and reveals the complex reality that was everyday life in old New England.
650		0	_aHome _zNew England _xHistory. _925839
650		6	_aFoyer _zNouvelle-Angleterre _xHistoire. _925840
650		6	_aStyle de vie _zNouvelle-Angleterre _xHistoire. _925841
651		0	_aNew England _xSocial life and customs. _99598
651		6	_aNouvelle-Angleterre _xM�urs et coutumes. _925842
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