The American Frugal Housewife
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Author(s)Mrs Child
PublisherVintage Cookery Books
ISBN / ASIN1406795380
ISBN-139781406795387
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,299,617
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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First published in 1828, Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife was an extremely popular nineteenth-century manual for homemakers. Interesting recipes and remedies, advice on parenting and the myriad responsibilities of housekeeping are all put forth in straightforward, no-nonsense, Yankee prose. Mrs. Child was an early feminist and abolitionist who supported her family through her various literary activities as a writer, a pamphleteer and an editor.