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In response to Jennifer S, I think that Beecher asserts that women should have extra rooms solely for laundry so as to make the household even more organized. Her whole document is called "System and Order," so to do laundry in any other place in the home besides the room devoted specifically to it would disrupt the order and cleanliness of the household. Also, perhaps the trunks full of extra supplies were kept locked so that children could not get into them and disrupt the order the wife had put them in. --Clare O. | In response to Jennifer S, I think that Beecher asserts that women should have extra rooms solely for laundry so as to make the household even more organized. Her whole document is called "System and Order," so to do laundry in any other place in the home besides the room devoted specifically to it would disrupt the order and cleanliness of the household. Also, perhaps the trunks full of extra supplies were kept locked so that children could not get into them and disrupt the order the wife had put them in. --Clare O. | ||
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| + | But did families at that time actually have rooms devoted to laundry? Were houses built with laundry rooms in mind? Or was this just an ideal that Catharine Beecher writes about? --Jennifer S. | ||
== Catharine Sedgwick, “First to None,” 1828 == | == Catharine Sedgwick, “First to None,” 1828 == | ||
