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Recollections of a Houskeeper

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  • In Caroline Howard Gilman

    …book form in 1834 as Recollections of a Housekeeper under the pseudonym Clarissa Packard. The book was a portrait of domestic life in New England; its Southern counterpart, Recollections of a Southern Matron, appeared in 1838. In these books, as in much of her writing, Gilman’s aim was to explain…

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