The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America /

The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamber, Wendy, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Lodging-houses > United States > History > 19th century.
Boardinghouses > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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".

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