Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920
From Duke University and the New York Public Library
An unparalleled resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920 comprises thousands of fully searchable images of rare books, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.
Material is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasising contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.
Highlights
- Fully-searchable access to 75 rare periodicals ranging from Echoes of the South (Florida) and the Household Magazine (North Carolina), to Lucifer the Lightbearer (Chicago), The Heathen Woman's Friend (Boston) and Women's Work (Georgia)
- A full run of Town Topics: The Journal of Society from the New York Public Library, 1887-1923, an essential source of articles and commentary on art, music, literature, society, gossip and scandal
- Strong coverage of prescriptive literature and manuals for domestic management, telling us much about the organisation of the American home
- A rich collection of rare pamphlets
- Hundreds of monographs illuminating all aspects of family life.
Included in
Key data
Period covered
1800-1920
Source archives
- The New York Public Library
- The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries
- Political and social issues
- Race
- Religion
- Family
- Popular fiction and sensational literature
- Children's prescriptive literature
- Periodicals
- Women
- Fashion and beauty
- Cookery
- Medicine
- Education
- Work
- Farming
- Rare Books
- Pamphlets
- Periodicals
- Broadsides
- Judith Mattson Bean, Texas Woman's University
- Amy Blair, Marquette University
- Laura Micham, Duke University
- Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston
- Nancy M Theriot, University of Louisville
- Cultural Studies
- Gender
- North American Studies
- Women's History
- Thematic Areas showcasing some of the collection’s highlights
- Introductory guide to Town Topics; the periodical Town Topics chronicled the New York social world during the height of the Gilded Age
- Contextual essays written by leading academics and collection specialists
- An interactive chronology charting key dates in nineteenth and early twentieth century American history
- Subject search directories providing key subjects found within the documents
Reviews
Highly recommended for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty
- Author: R I Attebury, University of Idaho
- Publisher: Choice
Most appropriate for instructions that offer programs in the women's studies or women's history, and to a large extent this perception is true.
