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What our grandmothers knew : hints, recipes & remedies of a bygone age / Reader's Digest.
Date: 1979
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Domestic economy; or, general recipe book : containing a number of useful recipes, compiled from valuable private manuscripts and expensive works of eminent men. / By P. Carruth, Chiropedist.
Carruth, P.Date: [1842?]
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Le menagier de Paris / edited by Georgine E. Brereton and Janet M. Ferrier ; with a foreword by Beryl Smalley.
Date: 1981
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The new family receipt-book, containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy, selected from the works of British and foreign writers of unquestionable experience and authority, and from the attested communications of scientific friends.
Date: 1815
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Men, women, and household work / Jacqueline J. Goodnow & Jennifer M. Bowes.
Jacqueline Jarrett GoodnowDate: 1994
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How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey.
Skey, L. Rutherfoord.Date: 1910
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The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good economy of the domestic concerns of a country life. According to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's, &c., wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England: shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping ... with variety of curious matters ... the whole founded on near thirty years experience / by W. Ellis.
William Wade EllisDate: 1750
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A way to get wealth. Containing six principal vocations, or callings in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves ... / The first five books gathered by G[ervase] M[arkham]. The last by Master W[illiam] L[awson].
Gervase MarkhamDate: [1676]
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Women at work / Kaye Hargreaves.
Hargreaves, Kaye, 1951-Date: 1982
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The Victorian home / Jenni Calder.
Jenni CalderDate: 1977
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From mangle to microwave : the mechanization of household work / Christina Hardyment.
Christina HardymentDate: 1988
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The American family keepsake: or, people's practical cyclopædia. A truthful book of facts and hints upon useful subjects: expressly adapted to meet the wants of every man, woman and child in the United States / By the good Samaritan.
Date: 1849
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The English housewife / Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best.
Gervase MarkhamDate: 1986
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Le dictionnaire des ménages, ou recueil de recettes et d'instructions pour l'économie domestique / Par m. Havet.
Havet, Armand Étienne Maurice, M., 1795-1820.Date: 1822
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The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce.
Pierce, CharlesDate: 1857
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The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs Isabella Beeton.
Isabella BeetonDate: 1861
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How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c.
Date: 1832
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America's working women / compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby.
Date: [1976]
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A manual of domestic economy : with hints on domestic medicine and surgery / by W.B. Tegetmeier.
William Bernhardt TegetmeierDate: 1870
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Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Date: 1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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The other side please! : it won't wash clothes! : Brooke's Soap. Monkey Brand. For scrubbing floors and kitchen tables : for metals, marble, paint & glass : for steel, iron, copper, bronze, for stair-rods and mantels : for a thousand household uses.
Benjamin Brooke & Company.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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The modern householder : a manual of domestic economy in all its branches / compiled and edited by Ross Murray ; and the medical portion by a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Murray, Ross, Jr.Date: [1872]
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The marriage book : for husbands and wives--and all who love children a sound and complete guide for parents / written and compiled by specialists in all the practical problems of family life.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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The female instructor; or, Young woman's friend & companion: being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character, either as a useful member of society, a pleasing companion, or, a respectable mother of a family ... To which are added, a select system of cookery, the art of preserving and pickling, brewing, making wines, family recipes, the management of poultry, dyeing, &c., and directions to servants of every description.
Date: [1821]
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A new system of practical domestic economy founded on modern discoveries, and the private communications of persons of experience.
Date: 1831

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What our grandmothers knew : hints, recipes & remedies of a bygone age / Reader's Digest.

Domestic economy; or, general recipe book : containing a number of useful recipes, compiled from valuable private manuscripts and expensive works of eminent men. / By P. Carruth, Chiropedist.

Le menagier de Paris / edited by Georgine E. Brereton and Janet M. Ferrier ; with a foreword by Beryl Smalley.

The new family receipt-book, containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy, selected from the works of British and foreign writers of unquestionable experience and authority, and from the attested communications of scientific friends.

Men, women, and household work / Jacqueline J. Goodnow & Jennifer M. Bowes.

How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey.

A way to get wealth. Containing six principal vocations, or callings in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves ... / The first five books gathered by G[ervase] M[arkham]. The last by Master W[illiam] L[awson].

Women at work / Kaye Hargreaves.

The Victorian home / Jenni Calder.

From mangle to microwave : the mechanization of household work / Christina Hardyment.

The American family keepsake: or, people's practical cyclopædia. A truthful book of facts and hints upon useful subjects: expressly adapted to meet the wants of every man, woman and child in the United States / By the good Samaritan.

The English housewife / Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best.

Le dictionnaire des ménages, ou recueil de recettes et d'instructions pour l'économie domestique / Par m. Havet.

The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce.

How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c.

America's working women / compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby.

A manual of domestic economy : with hints on domestic medicine and surgery / by W.B. Tegetmeier.

Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

The other side please! : it won't wash clothes! : Brooke's Soap. Monkey Brand. For scrubbing floors and kitchen tables : for metals, marble, paint & glass : for steel, iron, copper, bronze, for stair-rods and mantels : for a thousand household uses.

The modern householder : a manual of domestic economy in all its branches / compiled and edited by Ross Murray ; and the medical portion by a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The marriage book : for husbands and wives--and all who love children a sound and complete guide for parents / written and compiled by specialists in all the practical problems of family life.

A new system of practical domestic economy founded on modern discoveries, and the private communications of persons of experience.