![]() ![]() He states that "The nineteenth-century home was a woman's.confines. Author McCutcheon does occasionally neglect to give facts that would soften some of the gloomy picture he paints. Though not by any means an in-depth treatment of the period-no one book could ever cover all the fascinating details of everyday life and society in a hundred crowded years-it did provide me with an assortment of vernacular terms I'd never seen before, a sidebar on stagecoach etiquette, another on the treatment of various common contagions, some information on how safecrackers cracked safes, a good chronology of popular magazines, and various other tidbits to add to my ever-expanding files of information. I've been researching the 19th Century (with specific attention to the Old West, but a lot of Eastern culture got transplanted there, so inevitably I've had to learn about that too) for 35 years now, and I still find that a book can occasionally give me some information I didn't have. ![]()
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