
audiobook
by Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME: OR, PRINCIPLES OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE; - BEING A GUIDE TO THE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ECONOMICAL, HEALTHFUL, BEAUTIFUL, AND CHRISTIAN HOMES. - BY CATHERINE E. BEECHER AND HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA, IN WHOSE HANDS REST THE REAL DESTINIES OF THE REPUBLIC, AS MOULDED BY THE EARLY TRAINING AND PRESERVED AMID THE MATURER INFLUENCES OF HOME, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. - INTRODUCTION.
I. THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY.
II. A CHRISTIAN HOUSE.
III. A HEALTHFUL HOME.
IV. SCIENTIFIC DOMESTIC VENTILATION.
V. STOVES, FURNACES, AND CHIMNEYS.
VI. HOME DECORATION.
VII. THE CARE OF HEALTH.
VIII. DOMESTIC EXERCISE.
IX. HEALTHFUL FOOD.
Language
en
Duration
~15 hours (874K characters)
Release date
2004-09-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1800–1878
A pioneering 19th-century writer and educator, she argued that women deserved serious schooling and shaped how generations of Americans thought about home life, teaching, and domestic work. Her books on household management and education made her one of the most widely read voices of her time.
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1811–1896
Best known for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this American writer helped bring the cruelty of slavery into millions of homes. Her fiction made her one of the most influential literary voices of the 19th century.
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