The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping

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The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping

by Elizabeth Hale Gilman

EN·~7 hours·25 chapters

Chapters

25 total
1

The Library of Work and Play HOUSEKEEPING

0:46
2

ILLUSTRATIONS

0:17
3

PART I THE PLAY-HOUSE

0:01
4

THE PLAY-HOUSE

47:12
5

PART II LEARNING AND HELPING

0:01
6

LEARNING AND HELPING

21:25
7

PART III MY HERITAGE

0:01
8

I MY HERITAGE

6:58
9

II THE PLAN

22:45
10

III THE ACCOUNTS

15:53

Description

A gentle, whimsical guide unfolds as a narrator wanders through a tree‑house world where chores become adventures. Inside the leafy rooms, dolls are washed, mended, and dressed, while the kitchen basks in shafts of sunlight that bake a cake of garden‑soil and path‑dust. The opening scenes blend vivid description with playful verses, inviting listeners to imagine everyday tasks as part of a larger, enchanted routine.

The book then moves through a series of practical sections—laundry, ironing, cooking, cleaning, and even emergencies—each illustrated with charming sketches and framed by the same imaginative spirit. By pairing step‑by‑step advice with cheerful poetry and the delight of a child’s make‑believe, it shows how order, scent, and sunlight can transform the ordinary into something almost magical. Listeners will find both useful household tips and a reminder that a little imagination can make even the most routine work feel like play.

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Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (453K characters)

Series

The children's library of work and play

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-01-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Elizabeth Hale Gilman

A practical early-20th-century writer on home life, she is best known for clear, hands-on books that treated housekeeping as real work worth learning well. Her surviving published record suggests a focus on useful skills, everyday order, and girls’ education.

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