Josephine Long Wishart collection : mother, home, and heaven, 1829-[ongoing].

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Josephine Long Wishart collection : mother, home, and heaven, 1829-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39642224

Monograph collection of popular advice literature for women, covering topics from cooking and cleaning to marriage and birth control. Many of the titles are manuals that offer guidelines for self-improvement. The collection demonstrates how self-improvement advice has been redefined to meet the needs of popular culture.

ca. 800 items.

The College of Wooster, Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7415716

The College of Wooster, Libraries

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Hayford, Harrison.

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Harrison Mosher Hayford was born November 1, 1916 in Belfast, Maine, the son of Ralph Hayford and Marjorie Chase Hayford. A scholar of American literature, Hayford held academic positions at a smattering of universities before joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1942, where he remained until his retirement in 1986. Hayward's research focused on Herman Melville, as well as his contemporaries (Hawthorne, Emerson and Poe). Hayford's father was a dairy farmer a...

Wishart, Josephine Long.

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Hayford, Josephine Wishart.

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