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Title: A Treatise on Domestic Economy
For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

Author: Catherine Esther Beecher

Release Date: June 14, 2007 [eBook #21829]

Language: English

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A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY,

For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School.

by

MISS CATHERINE E. BEECHER.

Revised Edition,
With Numerous Additions and Illustrative Engravings.

New-York:
Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff Street.
1845.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by
Thomas H. Webb, & Co.,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO

AMERICAN MOTHERS,

whose intelligence and virtues have inspired admiration and respect,
whose experience has furnished many valuable suggestions, in this work,
whose approbation will be highly valued, and whose influence, in
promoting the object aimed at, is respectfully solicited, this work is
dedicated, by their friend and countrywoman,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE

TO THE THIRD EDITION.

The author of this work was led to atte