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Henrietta Sowle

A glimpse into turn-of-the-century home life comes through in the work of a writer who turned everyday shopping and cooking into lively, practical reading. Her surviving book offers a warm, detailed picture of how households bought, planned, and prepared food around 1900.

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I Go A-Marketing

I Go A-Marketing

by Henrietta Sowle

About the author

Henrietta Sowle is known for I Go A-Marketing, a book published by Little, Brown and Company in 1900. The book was also issued under the name "Henriette," and it has survived through library scans and Project Gutenberg, which is why readers can still discover it today.

Her writing stands out for treating ordinary domestic work as something worth observing closely. In I Go A-Marketing, she writes about food buying, menus, and household choices in a way that gives modern readers a useful window into everyday American life at the start of the twentieth century.

Very little confirmed biographical information about her was available in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember her through the book itself: a practical, engaging work that blends cookery, shopping, and social detail.