Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868 Household woman.

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GLC#
GLC05169
Type
Documents
Date
18 June 1868
Author/Creator
Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868
Title
Household woman.
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
Reconstruction

Poem expressing the sentiment that woman's highest calling is performing household tasks. She provides a key to the persons in the poem and notes that the 1st, 2d, 3d and last stanzas were written originally in 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina, while the remainder was written in Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts in June 1863.

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