[Harriet Beecher Stowe], Beecher,Catherine E. and Harriet Beecher Stowe. THE AMERICAN WOMAN’S HOME or, PRINCIPLES OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE; BEING A GUIDE TO THE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ECONOMICAL, HEALTHFUL, BEAUTIFUL, AND CHRISTIAN HOMES.  New York: J.B. Ford & Co., 1869.  1^st Ed. Brown cloth hard cover w/ornate gilt titling on spine and author’s name in gilt on the front board in script, 8vo (8x5”), very good / n.a., 500 pp. + [xii] pp. advs. in rear.  In very good condition less some light rubbing to head and tail of spine as well as the corners, three small spots on front board, light foxing majoritively in the end papers sector front and rear,appropriately and lightly age toned to the period.

            Who knew?  The Beecher sisters wrote a very opinionated book together – “ To the Women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the republic, as moulded by early training, and preserved amid the maturer influences of the home, this volume is affectionately inscribed”– from the half-title page.  The Beecher sisters pretty much cover all aspects of proper manners ala 1869 here.  Fascinating they were both very anti-feminist and quite verbally so.  They (and the publisher) also do a fantastic job of promoting the works of their brother Henry Ward Beecher in this book.

             Quite the distinctive book indeed – a first edition by the Beecher girls – a wonderful sector of Captured Tyme!