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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Cult of Domesticity
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Cult of Domesticity
Text 1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Text 2. Caroline Gilman
•  Reading Guide
» Link

Text 3. Catharine E. Beecher
Text 4. Harriet Jacobs
Text 5. Fanny Fern
Text 6. Godey's Lady's Book
Text 7. Rev. Theodore Parker
Text 8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton


RESOURCE MENU Reading Guide » Link

Link Page
2.  Caroline Gilman, Recollections of a Southern Matron, 1838,
Ch. 35, "The Planter's Bride"


Recollections of a Southern Matron
Link
https://docsouth.unc.edu/gilman/gilman.html

Note: "The Planter's Bride" (Ch. XXXV, pp. 250-257) is near the bottom of this web page.


Online
Source


Documenting the American South
Site creator: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries


Printing

If you choose to print this text:
-   Copy/paste pages 250-257 to a word-processing
    document and then print the document.
-   Length: 5 pages (single-space at 12-point type with
    1" margins).
-   Recommendation: Leave the page numbers
    in the copy/paste document.

Supplemental
site


Brief biography of C. H. Gilman, from the University of Rochester





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