Works with significant focus on cooking, housekeeping, caring for a family; includes fiction as well as explicitly instructional texts.
Motherless; or, A Parisian Family
Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, de Witt, Henriette Elizabeth Guizot
State: Foreign
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Translation, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Our Deportment; or, The Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined Society, including Forms of Letters, Invitations, etc., etc., also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and Training
Historical Authors: Young, A.M., John H.
State: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Education, Gardening, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
Moody’s Household Adviser and Cook Book
Historical Authors: Moody, Margarite A.
State: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Domestic Science, Gardening, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Cookbook
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
Bread-Making
Historical Authors: Dwight, Harriet A.
State: Miscellaneous
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Rosamond; A Series of Tales
Mistress and Maid
Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
State: Foreign
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Mrs. Arthur
Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret
State: Foreign
Keywords: Domestic Science, Marriage
Genres: Novel
A Son of the Soil
Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret
State: Foreign
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science
Genres: Novel
A Fair Barbarian
Historical Authors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
State: Foreign
Keywords: Domestic Science, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Virginia Cookery Book
Historical Authors: Smith, Mary Stuart
State: Virginia
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Letters to the People on Health and Happiness
Historical Authors: Beecher, Catharine Esther
State: Vermont
Keywords: Domestic Science, Health
Genres: Advice Literature, Essays
My Lady’s Casket of Jewels & Flowers for Her Adorning
Historical Authors: Talbot, Eleanor W.
State: Rhode Island
Keywords: Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Poetry
The Home Circle
Historical Authors: A.S.P, Paschall, Ann S.
State: Pennsylvania
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science
Genres: Novel
The American Girl’s Home Book of Work and Play
Historical Authors: Campbell, Helen
State: Pennsylvania
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
How to Grow Fine Celery. A New Method.
Historical Authors: Crider, H. M.
State: Pennsylvania
Keywords: Domestic Science, Gardening
Genres: Textbook
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
Women, Plumbers, and Doctors; or, Household Sanitation.
Historical Authors: Plunkett, Harriette Merrick
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
The Hearthstone; Or, Life at Home a Household Manual Containing Hints and Helps for Home Making, Home Furnishing, Decoration, Amusements, Together with a Complete Cookery Book
Historical Authors: Holloway, Laura Carter
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Cookbook, Textbook
The Art of Beauty
Historical Authors: Haweis, Mary Eliza
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Education, Fine Arts, Reform
Genres: Textbook
Illustrated Sewing Primer, with Songs and Music for Schools and Families
Historical Authors: Kirkwood, Louise J.
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Education
Genres: Textbook
Record for the Sick-Room
Historical Authors: Titcomb, V. C.
State: New York
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Build the Sisterhood: No Mention of Text or Author Found
Poems
Historical Authors: Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science
Genres: Poetry
In the Kitchen
Historical Authors: Miller, Elizabeth Smith
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Health-Hints to Women, Treating of Food, Exercise, Dress, Care of Children, etc., etc.
Historical Authors: Schott, Wilhelmine D.
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Cookbook, Textbook
Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text
Demorest’s Family Magazine.
Historical Authors: Croly, Jane Cunningham
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Periodical
Cooking-School Text-Book
Historical Authors: Corson, Juliet
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Education
Genres: Cookbook
Beauty in the Household
Historical Authors: Dewing, Maria Oakey
State: New York
Keywords: Domestic Science, Fine Arts, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
Beauty in Dress
Historical Authors: Dewing, Maria Oakey
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Fine Arts, Reform
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook
For the Major
Historical Authors: Woolson, Constance Fenimore
State: New Hampshire
Keywords: Bildungsroman, Domestic Science, Education, Reform, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Letters to Country Girls
Historical Authors: Swisshelm, Jane Grey
State: Minnesota
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving; a treatise containing practical instructions in cooking; in the combination and serving of dishes : and in the fashionable modes of entertaining at breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Historical Authors: Henderson, Mary Foote
State: Missouri
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning; A Manual for Housekeepers
Historical Authors: Richards, Ellen Henrietta
State: Massachusetts
The Appledore Cook Book; Containing Practical Receipts for Plain and Rich Cooking
Historical Authors: Parloa, Maria
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book; What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking
Historical Authors: Lincoln, Mary Johnson
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Domestic Science
Genres: Cookbook
First Principles of Household Management and Cookery; A Text-book for Schools and Families
Fancy Work Recreations; A Complete Guide to Knitting, Crochet, and Home Adornment
Historical Authors: Niles, Eva Marie
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Textbook
Domestic problems: Work and Culture in the Household, and the Schoolmaster’s Trunk
Anna Maria’s House-Keeping
Historical Authors: Power, Susan Dunning
State: Massachusetts
Keywords: Domestic Science
Genres: Advice Literature
Letters from a Mother to a Mother; on the Formation, Growth, and Care of the Teeth
Historical Authors: Walker, Jeanie Mort
State: Louisiana
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Textbook
Tokology; a Book for Every Woman
Historical Authors: Stockham, Alice Bunker
State: Illinois
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Textbook
Mrs. Owens’ Cookbook; and Useful Hints for the Household
Historical Authors: Owens, Frances Emugene
State: Illinois
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Dora’s Housekeeping
Historical Authors: Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury
State: Illinois
Keywords: Children's Literature, Domestic Science
Genres: Novel
“76”; A Cook Book, edited by the Ladies of Plymouth Church, Des Moines, Iowa
Historical Authors: Ladies of Des Moines Plymouth Church
State: Iowa
Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Cookbook
Pink and White Tyranny; A Society Novel
Historical Authors: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
State: Connecticut
Keywords: Bildungsroman, Domestic Science, Marriage, Reform, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Novel
Bits of Talk about Home Matters
Historical Authors: Jackson, Helen Hunt
State: Colorado
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Marriage, Reform
Genres: Advice Literature, Essays
Secrets Told. With Twenty-two Piquant Illustrations from Life
Historical Authors: Kingsbury, Alice Eliza
State: California
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
The New Housekeeper’s Manual; Embracing a New Revised Edition of the American Woman’s Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes
Historical Authors: Stowe, Catharine Esther, Stowe, Harriet Beecher
State: Connecticut
Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Health, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature, Cookbook, Textbook
Eve’s Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
Historical Authors: Harland, Marion, Terhune, Mary Virginia
State: New York
Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture
Genres: Advice Literature
House and Home Papers
Mothers in Council
Historical Authors: Gilman, Stella Scott, Vaughn, Marion
State: Alabama
Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Domestic Science
Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook