Preliminaries
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KEEPING HOUSE
AND
HOUSE KEEPING.
A STORY OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
EDITED BY
MRS. SARAH J. HALE.
“We'll little care what others do,
And where they go, and what they say;
Our bliss, all inward and our own,
Would only tarnish'd be by being shown:
The talking, restless world shall see,
Spite of the world, we'll happy be.”
Mrs. Barbauld.
NEW-YORK:
Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-St.
1845.
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Acknowledgment
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
THE CONSULTATION 7
CHAPTER II.
HIRING A HOUSEKEEPER 13
CHAPTER III.
MRS. HARLEY AND HER TRIALS 20
CHAPTER IV.
THE IRISH COOK 30
CHAPTER V.
AN EVENING LECTURE AND A MORNING SCENE 38
CHAPTER VI.
THE HOUSEKEEPER 45
CHAPTER VII.
THE NEW COOK AND NEW MANAGEMENT 51
CHAPTER VIII.
A PARTY PROPOSED 58
CHAPTER IX.
A NEW FURNACE AND A NEW COOK 65
CHAPTER X.
DISMISSAL OF THE HOUSEKEEPER 75
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CHAPTER XI.
DISCLOSURES 91
CHAPTER XII.
THE PARTY 98
CHAPTER XIII.
AUNT RUTH 102
CHAPTER XIV.
REFORMS 112
CHAPTER XV.
THE RESULTS OF A FASHIONABLE PARTY 120
CHAPTER XVI.
PROGRESS IN REFORMS 125
CHAPTER XVII.
THE VISIT TO AUNT RUTH 131
CHAPTER XVIII.
CONCLUSION 136
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 [1845], Keeping house and housekeeping: a story of domestic life (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf109].
