The Homemaker's Handbook: 11 Classic Books on Household Mastery

Classic Guides to Cookery, Sanitation, Budgeting, Nursing, Etiquette, and Home EconomicsBy Department of Education of Ontario, Adelaide Hoodless, Helen Kinne, Anna M. Cooley, Maria Parloa, Richard Bradley, Thomas Chapman
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The Homemaker's Handbook: 11 Classic Books on Household Mastery gathers practical domestic writing into a capacious record of household knowledge, education, nutrition, sanitation, and social responsibility. Ranging from instructional prose and curricular guidance to cookery, household management, and scientific domestic advice, the volume reveals the home as both a private sphere and a site of public importance. Its assembled texts illuminate the changing ideals of efficient, healthful, and informed home-making. The collection brings together educational authorities and influential writers associated with domestic science and household instruction, including the Department of Education of Ontario, Adelaide Hoodless, Helen Kinne, Anna M. Cooley, Maria Parloa, Richard Bradley, and Thomas Chapman. Their varied national, professional, and historical contexts trace a broad movement toward systematizing domestic labor through pedagogy, observation, and practical expertise. Read collectively, these voices show how household mastery was shaped by debates concerning gender, education, nutrition, economy, and modernity. This anthology is recommended for readers of social history, food studies, education, and material culture, as well as for anyone interested in the literary history of everyday life. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare methods, assumptions, and styles across eleven classic works, fostering a productive dialogue between inherited practice and reforming knowledge.

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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length93 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management
2Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management
3PUBLIC AND SEPARATE SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY
4HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT
5CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER V
7CHAPTER VI
8CHAPTER VII
9CHAPTER VIII
10CHAPTER X
11CHAPTER XII
12CHAPTER XIII
13Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
14Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
15PREFACE (pt. 1)
16PREFACE (pt. 2)
17PREFACE (pt. 3)
18Household Administration, Its Place in the Higher Education of Women
19Household Administration, Its Place in the Higher Education of Women
20PREFACE
21SCIENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD By Mrs. W. N. SHAW
22THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE HOUSEHOLD By MABEL ATKINSON, M.A. (Glasgow)
23SOME RELATIONS OF SANITARY SCIENCE TO FAMILY LIFE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFICIENCY By ALICE RAVENHILL (pt. 1)
24SOME RELATIONS OF SANITARY SCIENCE TO FAMILY LIFE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFICIENCY By ALICE RAVENHILL (pt. 2)
25MODERN WOMAN AND THE DOMESTIC ARTS By Mrs. R. W. EDDISON Member, Education Committee, West Riding County Council, Etc.
26Housekeeping in Old Virginia
27PREFACE.
28COFFEE, TEA, AND CHOCOLATE.
29OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH.
30GAME.
31BEEF AND VEAL.
32MUTTON AND LAMB.
33POULTRY.
34SAUCES.
35EGGS.
36PICKLES AND CATSUPS.
37CAKE.
38SMALL CAKES.
39PUDDINGS.
40PUDDING SAUCES.
41ICE CREAM AND FROZEN CUSTARD.
42WINE.
43HOUSE-CLEANING.
44The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House
45The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House
46A.
47B.
48C.
49D.
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