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notes Abbreviations AAS American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts AHB Antoinette Hutches Barker Barker Letters Richard Henry Barker and Antoinette Hutches Barker Letters (in possession of Moseley Putney, Louisville, Kentucky) BL Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts BYWCA Young Women’s Christian Association of Boston, Records, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts FMPC Federal Manuscript Population Census, National Archives Microfilm Publications Forbes Diary Susan Parsons Brown Forbes, Diary, October 24, 1861–March 1866 (original at American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.), American Women’s Diaries (New England) [microfilm] (New York, [1983?]) HAW Home for Aged Women, Boston, records, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts HML Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware MHS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston RGD R. G. Dun & Co. Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts RHB Richard Henry Barker SL Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Thorn Diary Catherine Thorn, Diaries, 1881, 1887, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts WL Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Library, Winterthur, Delaware WRHS The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio Introduction • Houses and Homes 1. Judith Martin, “Miss Manners: Adult Children Living at Home Can be Desirable Experience ,” Bloomington Herald-Times, March 22, 1998; Martin, “Miss Manners: Multigenerational Households Find Compromise Difficult,” Bloomington Herald-Times, August 16, 1998. 2. See, e.g., Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, – (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), 63–100; Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, – (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 186–229; Gwendolyn Wright, Moralism and the Modern Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, – (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), and Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (New York: Pantheon, 1981); Clifford Edward Clark Jr., The American Family Home, – (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986); and Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, – (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989). 3. Richard Crawford, America’s Musical Life: A History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), 178–80; Alaric A. Watts, “My Own Fireside,” in Home Life Made Beautiful, ed. Margaret Sangster (New York: Christian Herald, 1897), 33–34; Alice Fahs, [on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar (1868)] The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, – (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 147–48. 4. “Home Influences,” Christian Recorder, May 1, 1869; “The Pleasures of Home,” Boston Pilot, June 9, 1838, 158. 5. Clark, The American Family Home, 11–12; Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 55, 57–60; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary (New York: Vintage, 1991), 21, 80–82, 161, 223–26. 6. Sean Wilentz, “Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 1815–1848,” in The New American History, ed. Eric Foner (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 51–71; Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, – (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991); Melwyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, – (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996); Karen Haltunnen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, – (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982), 35. For the best and most sustained scholarly treatments of boardinghouses, see Paul Groth, Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States (Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1994); Rachel Amelia Bernstein, “Boarding-House Keepers and Brothel Keepers in New York City, 1880–1910” (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1984); Mark Peel, “On the Margins: Lodgers and Boarders in Boston, 1860–1900,” Journal of American History 72 (March 1986): 813–34; Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 60, 63–67, 88, 134– 38; and Kenneth A. Scherzer, The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, – (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992). Boardinghouses receive brief attention in Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, – (New York: Knopf, 1986), 9, 13, 53, 85, 185–86; Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis : Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990), 169–71, 179–80, 204–9, 241–43; Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (New York: Pantheon, 1981), 37–38...
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