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House and Home

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
16 and 17 July 1988

CONTENTS

SECTION I: STARTING A HOUSEHOLD

Provision for Daughters: The Accounts of Samuel Lane
Jane C. Nylander

SECTION II: HOUSEHOLD LIFE

The “Single-Parent” Households of Portland’s Wadsworth-Longfellow House
Joyce Butler

Murder in Middletown: Lower-Class Life in Connecticut in 1815
Doris Sherrow

SECTION III: HOUSEKEEPING, DOMESTIC SERVICE, KITCHEN WORK

“Slavish” and Other Female Work in the Parkman Household, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1724–1782
Ross W. Beales, Jr.

The Dilemmas of Domestic Service in New England, 1750–1850
Charles A. Hammond

Home Fires: Cookstoves in American Culture, 1815–1900
Priscilla J. Brewer

SECTION IV: PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS IN THE HOME

“A great help to many families”: Straw Braiding in Massachusetts Before 1825
Caroline Sloat

Eliza Wildes Bourne of Kennebunk: Professional Fancy Weaver, 1800–1820
Sandra S. Armentrout

SECTION V: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

Selected Bibliography on Aspects of House and Home in New England and the Northeast Before 1870
Gerald W. R. Ward

Lecture Program, 16 and 17 July 1988
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Acknowledgments
Photo and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors