Women’s Work and Culture

Works with significant focus on women’s paid and unpaid labor, vocations, and avocations.

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

Treasures of Use and Beauty: an Epitome of the Choicest Gems of Wisdom, History, Reference, and Recreation

Historical Authors: By a Corps of Special Authors

State: Miscellaneous

Keywords: Conduct, Domestic Science, Gardening, Health, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature, Reference

Stage-Struck; or, She Would Be an Opera-Singer

Historical Authors: Roosevelt, Blanche

State: Miscellaneous

Keywords: Education, Fine Arts, Reform, Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of her Labors and Correspondence drawn from her Book of Life

Historical Authors: Titus, Frances W.

State: Miscellaneous

Keywords: Life Writing, Race, Reform, War, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography, Memoir

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

The Woman’s Kingdom: A Love Story

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Health, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Twenty Years Ago. From The Journal of a Girl in Her Teens

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, Walford, Beatrice

State: Foreign

Keywords: Life Writing, Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Memoir

The Works of Hannah More (2 vols.)

Historical Authors: More, Hannah

State: Foreign

Keywords: Education, Gardening, Natural History, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays, History, Poetry, Stories

The Story of Valentine and His Brother

Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret

State: Foreign

Keywords: Child Rearing, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

The Moorland Cottage

Historical Authors: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

State: Foreign

Keywords: Region & Regionalism, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

The Last of the Mortimers: A Story in Two Voices

Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret

State: Foreign

Keywords: Health, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford

Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret

State: Foreign

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Mistress and Maid

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

My Mother and I: A Love Story

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Child Rearing, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Miss Tommy: A Medieval Romance

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Miss Moore: A Tale for Girls

Historical Authors: Craik, Georgiana Marion

State: Foreign

Keywords: Children's Literature, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Madam: A Novel

Historical Authors: Oliphant, Mrs.Margaret

State: Foreign

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times, the First Revolution and the First Empire

Historical Authors: Stevens, Abel

State: Foreign

Keywords: Literary Scholarship, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography

Louisiana

Historical Authors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

State: Foreign

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Lives of the Queens of England From the Norman Conquest

Historical Authors: Strickland, Agnes

State: Foreign

Keywords: Life Writing, Marriage, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography, History

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Historical Authors: Carlyle, Jane Welsh

State: Foreign

Keywords: Life Writing, Marriage, Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays, Memoir

His Little Mother and Other Tales and Sketches

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Child Rearing, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Stories

Hannah

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Education, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Haworth’s

Historical Authors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

State: Foreign

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Fated to be Free

Historical Authors: Ingelow, Jean

State: Foreign

Keywords: Child Rearing, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Emma

Historical Authors: Austen, Jane

State: Foreign

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Don John

Historical Authors: Ingelow, Jean

State: Foreign

Keywords: Health, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Da Capo and Other Tales

Historical Authors: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

State: Foreign

Keywords: Child Rearing, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Stories

Cranford

Historical Authors: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

State: Foreign

Keywords: Health, Marriage, Region & Regionalism, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

A Brave Lady

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

A Life for a Life

Historical Authors: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

State: Foreign

Keywords: Industry, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

A Fair Barbarian

Historical Authors: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

State: Foreign

Keywords: Domestic Science, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Man is Love: An American Story. By One Who Knows

Historical Authors: Brinton, Bulah

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Out from the Shadows, or, Trial and Triumph

Historical Authors: Ruddy, Ella A. Giles

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Maiden Rachel

Historical Authors: Ruddy, Ella A. Giles

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Gathered Leaves

Historical Authors: Dunning, Frances A. B.

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Child Rearing, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Poetry

For Mothers and Daughters; A Manual of Hygeine for Women and The Household

Historical Authors: Cook, Selina Putnam

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Education, Health, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook

Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin

Historical Authors: Woman's State Centennial Executive Committee, Wisconsin

State: Wisconsin

Keywords: Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Report

Virginia Cookery Book

Historical Authors: Smith, Mary Stuart

State: Virginia

Keywords: Domestic Science, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Cookbook

Pathfinder for the Organization and Work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Historical Authors: Greene, Mary J. Wright

State: Vermont

Keywords: Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Reference, Textbook

Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text

Soundings

Historical Authors: Meriwether, Lide Smith

State: Tennessee

Keywords: Marriage, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays, Poetry, Stories

My Scrap Book

Historical Authors: Snyder, Ann E.

State: Tennessee

Keywords: Marriage, Natural History, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Poetry, Stories

Woman in Japan

Historical Authors: Lyon, Emory

State: Rhode Island

Keywords: Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Scholarly Work

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

Leaves from An Invalid’s Journal, and Poems

Historical Authors: Gladding, Mrs. E.N.

State: Rhode Island

Keywords: Child Rearing, Life Writing, Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays, Memoir, Poetry

Factory Women and Girls of New England

Historical Authors: Chace, Elizabeth Buffum

State: Rhode Island

Keywords: Economics, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text

A Book of Love Stories

Historical Authors: Perry, Nora

State: Rhode Island

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Stories

A Biographica Sketch of Elizabeth Kittredge Churchill

Historical Authors: Taylor, Kate Kittredge

State: Rhode Island

Keywords: Life Writing, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography

The Professor’s Wife; or It Might Have Been

Historical Authors: MacGregor, Annie L.

State: Pennsylvania

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Memoir of Rachel Hicks / written by herself ; together with some letters and a memorial of Westbury Monthly Meeting

Historical Authors: Hicks, Rachel Hicks

State: Pennsylvania

Keywords: Life Writing, Philosophy & Religion, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography, Memoir

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

Woman’s Place To-Day. Four lectures, in reply to the Lenten lectures on “Woman” by the Rev. Morgan Dix

Historical Authors: Blake, Lillie Devereaux

State: New York

Keywords: Law, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays

Medical Work of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society

Historical Authors: Gracey, Annie Ryder

State: New York

Keywords: Health, Philosophy & Religion, Travel, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Report

Thorns in Your Sides

Historical Authors: Keyser, Harriette A.

State: New York

Keywords: Economics, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text

The Question of Rest for Women during Menstruation

Historical Authors: Jacobi, Mary Putnam

State: New York

Keywords: Health, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature

History of Woman’s Suffrage

Historical Authors: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

State: New York

Keywords: Reform, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: History, Report

Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text

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

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

Pathfinder for the Organization and Work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Historical Authors: Greene, Mrs. E.G.

State: New York

Keywords: Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Reference, Textbook

The Kitchen-Garden; or Object Lessons in Household Work including songs, plays, exercises, and games, illustrating household occupations

Historical Authors: Huntington, Emily

State: New York

Keywords: Domestic Science, Fine Arts, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook

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

The Cooking Garden. A systematized course of cooking for pupils of all ages, including plan of work, bills of fare, songs, and letters of information

Historical Authors: Huntington, Emily

State: New York

Keywords: Child Rearing, Domestic Science, Education, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Cookbook, Music, Textbook

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

Anna Maylie: A Story of Work

Historical Authors: Pratt, Ella Farman

State: New York

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

A Transplanted Rose: A Story of New York Society

Historical Authors: Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth Wilson

State: New York

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Conduct, Education, Marriage, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

A Strange Disappearance

Historical Authors: Green, Anna Katharine

State: New York

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

For the Major

Historical Authors: Woolson, Constance Fenimore

State: New Hampshire

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Domestic Science, Education, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Woman’s Record, or Sketches of All Distinguished Women, From “the Beginning” till A.D. 1850

Historical Authors: Hale, Sarah Josepha

State: New Hampshire

Keywords: Life Writing, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography

Woman’s Way Out

Historical Authors: Henderson, Frances C.

State: New Jersey

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Pamphlet

Build the Sisterhood: No Mention of Text or Author Found

Daughters of America: Or, Women of the Century

Historical Authors: Hannaford, Phebe Ann

State: New Jersey

Keywords: Literary Scholarship, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography

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

What Can a Woman Do?; or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World

Historical Authors: Rayne, Martha Louise

State: Michigan

Keywords: Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Poetry, Reference, Stories

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Historical Authors: Fuller, Margaret

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays

The Story of Avis

Historical Authors: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Fine Arts, Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning; A Manual for Housekeepers

Historical Authors: Richards, Ellen Henrietta

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Domestic Science, Science & Invention, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Cookbook, Textbook

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

Mary Lamb

Historical Authors: Gilchrist, Ann

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Life Writing, Literary Scholarship, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Biography

Love in the Nineteenth Century; A Fragment

Historical Authors: Preston, Harriet Waters

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Education, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

Life Without and Life Within; or, reviews, narratives, essays, and poems

Historical Authors: Fuller, Margaret

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Philosophy & Religion, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays, Poetry

Later Lyrics

Historical Authors: Howe, Julia Ward

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: War, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Poetry

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

Historical Authors: Diaz, Abby Morton

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Domestic Science, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays

Doctor Zay

Historical Authors: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Marriage, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

An Idyl of Work

Historical Authors: Larcom, Lucy

State: Massachusetts

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Poetry

Dress-Reform: A Series of Lectures Delivered in Boston on Dress as it Affects the Heath of Women

Historical Authors: Woolson, Abba Goold

State: Maine

Keywords: Health, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Essays

A Country Doctor

Historical Authors: Jewett, Sarah Orne

State: Maine

Keywords: Bildungsroman, Health, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Novel

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

The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman’s Work

Historical Authors: Penny, Virgina

State: Kentucky

Keywords: Economics, Health, Industry, Reform, Suffrage & Women's Rights, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature, Reference

Day in and Day Out; or, Leaves from the Record of 1877

Historical Authors: Gray, Fannie Barbour

State: Kentucky

Keywords: Life Writing, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Memoir

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

Six Little Cooks; or, Aunt Jane’s Cooking Class

Historical Authors: Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury

State: Illinois

Keywords: Children's Literature, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Cookbook, Stories, 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

Home Treatment for Children with Lessons on Moral Training

Historical Authors: Trippe, M. W.

State: Illinois

Keywords: Child Rearing, Conduct, Health, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature, Textbook

Hints and Helps in Our Temperance Work

Historical Authors: Willard, Frances Elizabeth

State: Illinois

Keywords: Law, Reform, Women's Work & Culture

Genres: Advice Literature

Every Monday Papers (Chicago)

Historical Authors: Every Monday Club

State: Illinois

Keywords: Women's Work & Culture

Build the Sisterhood: Still Searching for Digitized Text

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