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CHILD [L.M.F], MRS. The Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to those who are not ashamed of Economy. Tenth Edition. To which are added, Hints to Persons of moderate Fortune. Also some valuable Domestic Receipts. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Printed for T.T. and J. Tegg, Cheapside [and others], 1833 8vo., Tenth Edition, with an engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), a few minimal edge-marks and some very light browning to a few leaves, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; original full roan, upper board blocked with title and price in gilt, back ruled in gilt, joints very lightly rubbed, a notably crisp, clean copy. Printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. Lydia Maria Child (nee Francis) (1802-1880), novelist, journalist, domestic advice writer and social reformer, was one of the first American women to earn a living income from her writing. Born in Medford Massachusetts, she had completed several relatively successful novels by the time of her marriage to David Child in 1828. But only a year later her husband's decreasing income led Lydia to look to increase her own. In 1829 she published an advice book, 'The Frugal Housewife', directed at the new American middle-class wife and mother. Unlike earlier English and American advice and cookery books, aimed universally at the educated and wealthy, this book assumed as its audience the lower-income American wife with no household of servants. Child's emphasis on plain living while saving time and money found favour with a large audience and the work was an enormous success. The English version was no less popular, running to no fewer than fifteen editions by 1835. It is difficult to find this work in anything like this condition.A DELIGHTFUL COPY OF AN IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL DOMESTIC VADE-MECUM OF THE EARLY-TO-MID NINETEENTH CENTURY. See Oxford, p.168 (recording the fifteenth edition of 1835).
Offered for GBP 162.00 = appr. US$ 258.07 by: Island Books - Book number: 8351