The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / Wendy Gamber.
2007
HD7288.U4 G36 2007
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Title
The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / Wendy Gamber.
Author
Gamber, Wendy, 1958- author.
ISBN
9780801885716 (alk. paper)
080188571X (alk. paper)
9781421402598 (electronic bk.)
080188571X (alk. paper)
9781421402598 (electronic bk.)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
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HD7288.U4 G36 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
917.3/0615
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index.
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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".
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".