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Sociability and Gendered Spheres

Visiting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century New England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Cameron Lynne Macdonald and
Karen V. Hansen
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In her diary entry of 24 December 1862, Harriet Anne Severance, a domestic worker, detailed the activity surrounding the seasonal slaughter of hogs: “ It has been grease, grease all day, the hog is most taken care of. Henry,Meroa & I got started forMr. Henry’s this afternoon,Wells came after Henry overtook us at Uncle Chester’s, took him home with him, & Meroa and I went on had a good visit, & we have been to Mr. Child’s this evening.” While her day was unusually busy, it was not unusual in the way that it intertwined the lives of many people, men and women included.

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Social Science History , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , winter 2001, pp. 535 - 561
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2001 

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