Home Topics by Susan Anna Brown 1881 and 12 similar items

Home Topics by Susan Anna Brown 1881 Home Topics Practical Papers on House and Home Matters Susan Anna Brown Troy, New York: H. B. Nims Company Copyright 1881 Black and white illustrations 564 pages The hinges and binding are broken and the cover is detached but all the pages are present. The pages are tanning and have some mild and scattered foxing and brown age spots and a few pages are corner creased. The beveled edge cover is rubbed and very edge worn. Poor. Hardcover. Contents: The Household; Books and Education; The Vacations; Home Amusements and Work; Sickness and Health; About the Young Folks; For the Young Folks; The Home. Here are gathered together many of the brightest as well as many of the most helpful thoughts of a number of the best known American writers, constituting a series of papers on domestic matters which, for variety and practical suggestiveness, it would be hard to match in the compass of one book. Some of the authors are Louisa M. Alcott, Mary Mapes Dodge, Edward Eggleston, Thomas Hughes, Olive Thorne Miller and many others. (#00002578)