Boardinghouse Women

by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Boardinghouse Women
Author: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:
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In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South; some also carried the institution to far-flung places like California, New York, and London. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners. Within their walls, boardinghouse residents and owners developed the region's earliest printed cookbooks, created space for making music and writing literary works, formed ad hoc communities of support, tested boundaries of race and sexuality, and more. Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.

The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

by Wendy Gamber
The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Wendy Gamber
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421402599
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In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home": the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Gamber explores the experiences of the numerous people—old and young, married and single, rich and poor—who made boardinghouses their homes. Gamber contends that the very existence of the boardinghouse helped create the domestic ideal of the single family home. Where the home was private, the boardinghouse theoretically was public. If homes nurtured virtue, boardinghouses supposedly bred vice. Focusing on the larger cultural meanings and the commonplace realities of women’s work, she examines how the houses were run, the landladies who operated them, and the day-to-day considerations of food, cleanliness, and petty crime. From ravenous bedbugs to penny-pinching landladies, from disreputable housemates to "boarder's beef," Gamber illuminates the annoyances—and the satisfactions—of nineteenth-century boarding life.

Boarding Out

by David Faflik
Boarding Out
Author: David Faflik
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810128381
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Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new metropolis, boarding out became, for a few short decades, the most popular form of urban domesticity in the United States.While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on the period’s writers and writings. Addressing the works of canonical authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as neglected popular writers of the era such as Fanny Fern and George Lippard, Faflik demonstrates that boarding was at once psychically, artistically, and materially central in the making of our shared American culture.

The Boarding School Girls

by Soosan Latham
The Boarding School Girls
Author: Soosan Latham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-09-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351745662
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They were children. Put on a train in a strange land, they waved goodbye to a parent as they headed to an educational institution that, unbeknownst to them, was to become their new home. Separated from their loving families, they strived to meet the expectations of the grownups and, in some cases, to rebel against them. Now, independent women, compassionate mothers, and astute professionals, they look back on their youth in the 1960’s and 1970’s to make sense of why they were sent away, and to give meaning to the sources that have sustained them over the years. Ex-boarders themselves, Latham and Ferdows provide vivid and emotionally embodied narratives of everyday lives of The Boarding School Girls. This unique collection of stories explores key issues of identity and lifespan development to seek understanding of the influence of national, religious and family culture on development within two conflicting sets of cultural values. Combining unique qualitative data with illuminating tales of resilience and accomplishment in what is likely to simultaneously inform and inspire readers with feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate, abandonment and hope, but mainly trust and forgiveness. The stories of eleven ‘little rich’ Persian girls are a nostalgic reminder of their past cross-cultural ordeals, a pragmatic perspective on psychological implications of boarding school education in England, and a celebration of the possibilities of the future. The Boarding School Girls is valuable reading for students in cultural, developmental and educational psychology and the humanities, as well as clinical psychologists and educators looking at the impact of boarding school on adolescent development.

The Boardinghouse

by Carol Ervin
The Boardinghouse
Author: Carol Ervin
Publisher: Mountain Women Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre:
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Standing together In the fifth installment of the Mountain Women Series, May Rose discovers that managing the boardinghouse and doing her best for loved ones make challenging days and anxious nights. Now she faces triple threats: her husband has been struck by paralysis, someone from the past is trying to find her, and malicious guests are poised to ruin her reputation. But she's not alone. As she does her duty and stands up for herself, she's strengthened by the love and support of family and friends. Don't miss The Boardinghouse, a powerful story of love, resilience, and standing together in the face of adversity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- READERS ARE ENJOYING THE MOUNTAIN WOMEN SERIES: FIVE STARS: "The more of this series I read, the more I want to read! This one REALLY resonated... Every book includes adversity to overcome and I've learned that the main character, May Rose, is our influencer as a reader and also in her community as a character. Another installment from the mining town of Winkler where life is a daily struggle. If you enjoy historic novels set in the early 1900s, this is for you! Light reading? Yes, but also interesting and enjoyable from cover to cover." -Goodreads Reviewer FIVE STARS: "History meets local color in early 20th century West Virginia, and comes alive through well wrought characters in a gripping narrative. Carol Ervin is a story teller par excellence. I loved The Waltons, but this is closer to the real thing. Sorry, John Boy." -Goodreads Reviewer FIVE STARS: "I am hooked! I have enjoyed these first 5 books so much. They're addictive!...I can't wait to see what happens next to the characters, and I enjoy reading about daily life in that time period." -Goodreads Reviewer FIVE STARS: "I really can't get enough of the Mountain Women series... If you are looking for a great series of books, this is one to put on your list." -Goodreads Reviewer

British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature

by Terri Mullholland
British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature
Author: Terri Mullholland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317172094
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Embraced for the dramatic opportunities afforded by a house full of strangers, the British boarding house emerged as a setting for novels published during the interwar period by a diverse range of women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf. To use the single room in the boarding house or bedsit, Terri Mullholland argues, is to foreground a particular experience. While the single room represents the freedoms of independent living available to women in the early twentieth century, it also marks the precariousness of unmarried women’s lives. By placing their characters in this transient space, women writers could explore women's changing social roles and complex experiences – amateur prostitution, lesbian relationships, extra-marital affairs, and abortion – outside traditional domestic narrative concerns. Mullholland presents new readings of works by canonical and non-canonical writers, including Stella Gibbons, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic fiction written and read by women, the literature of the single room merges modernism's interest in interior psychological states with the realism of precisely documented exterior spaces, offering a new mode of engagement with the two forms of interiority.