This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, will

A microhistorical examination of early American culture

She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think abou