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Housewives - History

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Works from the collections

5 works

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    Labour and love : women's experience of home and family, 1850-1940 / edited by Jane Lewis.

    | Date: 1985
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    A woman's work is never done : a history of housework in the British Isles, 1650-1950 / by Caroline Davidson.

    | Davidson, Caroline | Date: 1982
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    Schoon genoeg : huisvrouwen en huishoudtechnologie in Nederland 1898-1998 / Ruth Oldenzile en Carolien Bouw (redactie).

    | Date: 1998
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    Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household : the world of Alice Le Strange / Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths.

    | Jane Whittle | Date: 2012
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    A history of the wife / Marilyn Yalom.

    | Marilyn Yalom | Date: 2001

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