Frugal Housewife, The.
Dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy. To which are added, hints persons of moderate fortune. Also now added, by the English editor, some valuable domestic receipts. etc.
Unusually in the original printed boards.
New English edition, corrected and arranged by the author. Frontispiece depicting the Frugal Housewife herself. Pp. ii, 176.
8vo., a remarkable survival in the original printed boards, spine darkened, a little rubbing and chipping, upper joint starting but strongly attached. London, T. Tegg & Son. 1834.
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was a novelist, journalist, domestic advice writer and social reformer, and one of the first American women to earn a living from her writing. In 1829 she published 'The Frugal Housewife', which was unusual in that it was directed at the lower-income middle class American wife, living without a large household of servants. Child's emphasis on plain living while saving time and money found favour with a large audience and the work was an enormous success. The English version, as here, was no less popular, running to no fewer than fifteen editions by 1835.
Bitting p.86 cites the US editions, Oxford cites the 1835 English edition p.168.
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