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The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / Wendy Gamber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421402598 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America.DDC classification:
  • 917.3/0615 22
LOC classification:
  • HD7288.U4 G36 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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".
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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".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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