...This chapter discusses the concepts of “scientific child rearing” and “scientific motherhood,” which were common parlance at the time among well-educated women. Scientific child rearing was expected to transform motherhood into a true profession. According to Swaim, Cora Bussey Hillis traveled...

...This chapter describes the marriages and motherhood of the Beecher sisters. Isabella Beecher was granted the additional year of education at the Hartford Female Seminary she asked her father for, the school Catharine had founded. In her courtship correspondence with John, Isabella revealed a trait...

... housekeeping household management wifehood motherhood ‘Housekeeping was no joke.’ ² When Maud Clarke looked back over her life, she had very little to say about her husband or their adult lives together. Most of her recollections centred upon her childhood, schooling and the early home life she...