The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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Sommario:
- Introduction : Houses and homes
- Away from home
- Keeping house
- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living"
- Boarders' beefs
- Nests of crime and dens of vice
- "Will they board, or keep house?"
- Charity begins at home
- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house".