| | PAGE | | | | | INTRODUCTORY NOTE | vii | | | | | HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS | | I. | The Ravages of a Carpet | 1 | | II. | Homekeeping vs. Housekeeping | 16 | | III. | What is a Home? | 33 | | IV. | The Economy of the Beautiful | 54 | | V. | Raking Up the Fire | 69 | | VI. | The Lady who does her own Work | 85 | | VII. | What can be got in America | 101 | | VIII. | Economy | 112 | | IX. | Servants | 133 | | X. | Cookery | 153 | | XI. | Our House | 182 | | XII. | Home Religion | 212 | | | | | THE CHIMNEY-CORNER | | I. | What will You do with Her? or, The Woman Question | 231 | | II. | Woman’s Sphere | 249 | | III. | A Family Talk on Reconstruction | 274 | | IV. | Is Woman a Worker? | 300 | | V. | The Transition | 316 | | VI. | Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health | 330 | | VII. | How shall we entertain our Company? | 347 | | VIII. | How shall we be Amused? | 362 | | IX. | Dress, or Who makes the Fashions | 374 | | X. | What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress? | 395 | | XI. | The Cathedral | 412 | | XII. | The New Year | 425 | | XIII. | The Noble Army of Martyrs | 438 | | | | | OUR SECOND GIRL | 449 | | | | | A SCHOLAR’S ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY | 473 | | | | | TRIALS OF A HOUSEKEEPER | 487 | The frontispiece is from a photograph of Mrs. Stowe taken in 1884. The vignette of Mrs. Stowe’s later Hartford home is from a drawing by Charles Copeland.
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