Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck

Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 September 2004
Pages
280
ISBN
9780821415870

Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck

To Mary Augusta Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman housekeeping represents responsibilities in making the food supply safe, reforming politics, and improving the human race itself. Raising the Dust places their writing in the context of the late-Victorian era, in particular the eugenic movement, the proliferation of household conveniences, the home economics focus, and decreased reliance on servants.

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