TY - BOOK AU - Gamber,Wendy TI - The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America AV - HD7288.U4 G36 2007 U1 - 917.3/0615 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Lodging-houses KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Boardinghouses KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index; Introduction : Houses and homes -- Away from home -- Keeping house -- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living" -- Boarders' beefs -- Nests of crime and dens of vice -- "Will they board, or keep house?" -- Charity begins at home -- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4398422 ER -