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THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy By: Mrs Child

THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy
THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy
Item# hardcover, ISBN 0-918222-98-2
$9.95

First published in 1828, Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife was an extremely popular nineteenth-century manual for homemakers. Interesting recipes and remedies, advice on parenting and all put forth in straightforward, no-nonsense, Yankee prose. hardcover, 130 pages