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Women’s Work in New England, 1620–1920

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
15 through 17 June 2001

CONTENTS

SECTION I. WOMEN AND WASHING

Washing Household Linens and Linen Clothing in 1627 Plymouth
Maureen Richard

SECTION II. WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE

Increase and Vantage: Women, Cows, and the Agricultural Economy of Colonial New England
Pamela J. Snow

Constance Strong’s Diary: Women’s Work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910–1920
Cameron Clifford

SECTION III. WOMEN AS PRODUCTIONS OF TEXTILES AND CLOTHING

“That leisure hour I seldom find”: Hannah Hayden’s Work and Family Economy in Frontier New York, 1806–1822
Amber Degn

“The Fruit of my industry”: Economic Roles and Marital Conflict in New England, 1790–1830
Mary Beth Sievens

One in Every Village: Women in Maine Who Knit for Others
Robin Hansen

SECTION IV. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Number, Please: New Hampshire Predial Telephone Operators, 1877–1920
Judith Moyer

SECTION V. ABOLITIONISTS, MISSIONARIES, AND MEMORY MAKERS

“We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave”: The Abolition Work of Mary White
Mary B. Fuhrer

A New England Goodwife Laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, Missionary Pioneer
Judith M. Knowles

Nantucket’s Memory Keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the Women of the Nantucket Historical Association
Aimee E. Newell

SECTION VI. GENDERED ROLES IN HEALING AND CHILDBIRTH

The Housewife as Healer: Medicine as Women’s Work in Colonial New England
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum

Women’s Travail, Men’s Labor: Birth Stories from Eighteenth-Century New England Diaries
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

SECTION VII. CHILDREN AND SERVANTS

Eggs on the Sand: Domestic Servants and Their Children in Federal New England
Marla R. Miller

Polish: The Maintenance of Manners
J. Coral Woodbury

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

Conference Program, 15 through 17 June 2001
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors