The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America :: Wendy Gamber :: ISBN 9780801885716 :: Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 :: OBNB, the Open British National Bibliography

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Title The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America
Author Wendy Gamber
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date 2007
Publication location Baltimore
Language English

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".

Topics

Lodging-houses :: United States :: History :: 19th century
Boardinghouses :: United States :: History :: 19th century
United States :: Social conditions :: 19th century
United States

Catalogue Data

OBNB ID GBA882333
ISBN 10 080188571X
ISBN 13 9780801885716
Type BibliographicResource, Book
Dewey Classification 917.30615

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P1053 xii, 213 p., [8] p. of plates
P1042 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.

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The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America

Wendy Gamber

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