The English Housewife

The English Housewife
ISBN-10
0773511032
ISBN-13
9780773511033
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
321
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Gervase Markham

Description

In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives that contains "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife". Markham instructs and advises on everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. Woodcut illustrations add a richness to this look at life during the Renaissance.

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