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I agree. if Beecher is talking about people with extra room just for laundry, she's writing to a very small audience of rather wealthy women. Her experience of running a household probably isn't like the experiences of poorer women; they were more likely to have other work to do too, I imagine. -- Katie C. | I agree. if Beecher is talking about people with extra room just for laundry, she's writing to a very small audience of rather wealthy women. Her experience of running a household probably isn't like the experiences of poorer women; they were more likely to have other work to do too, I imagine. -- Katie C. | ||
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| + | Clare - I found that contradiction between employing children to work around the home and the middle class ideal of them not doing such activities. If it was a standard to have a house maid why was all these tedious work by the wife and children necessary? It seems as though the perfect image of the middle class was made to seem effortless by those who lived it but in reality was alot of hard work all in order to keep up with society. --Rachel T. | ||
== Catharine Sedgwick, “First to None,” 1828 == | == Catharine Sedgwick, “First to None,” 1828 == | ||
