Principles of Domestic Science, as Applied to the Duties and Pleasures of Home: A Textbook for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Catharine E. Beecher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332803539 ISBN 13: 9781332803538

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Principles of Domestic Science, as Applied to the Duties and Pleasures of Home: A Textbook for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges

Importance of some knowledge of the body and its needs - Fearful re sponsibility of entering upon domestic duties in ignorance - The funda mental vital principle - Cell-life - Wonders of the microscope - Cell multiplication - Constant interplay of decay and growth necessary to life - The red and white cells of the blood - Secreting and converting power - The nervous system - The brain and the nerves - Structural arrangement and functions - The ganglionic system - The nervous fluid - Necessity of properly apportioned exercise to nerves of sensation and of motion - Evils of excessive or insufficient exercise - Equal develop ment of the whole - Pages 104 - 112.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet s literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom s Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer s disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom s Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.

Catharine Esther Beecher was born on September 6, 1800 in East Hampton, New York to Roxana Foote and Reverend Lyman Beecher. A prominent educator and author, Beecher advocated for the rigorous education of women and for the elevation of their role within the domestic sphere. She was the author of numerous works on domestic management, founded five schools, and formed The American Woman's Educational Aossication (1852) and The Ladies Society for Promoting Education in the West. Catharine Beecher died in Emira, New York on May 12, 1878.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332803539
• ISBN 13: 9781332803538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 523