THE ATHENAEUMThe Modern HousewifeAlexis Soyer
Food History
The Modern Housewife
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSoyer’s book of 1849 for the middle-class household, written as letters and talk between two housewives, Hortense and Eloise. It goes from breakfast to dinner parties and from the nursery to the sickroom. It is cheerful, practical and not above advertising its author.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- On the Food History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #41899. In the public domain in the United States.