The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / / Wendy Gamber.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2007. |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Houses and homes
- Away from home
- Keeping house
- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living"
- Boarders' beefs
- Nests of crime and dens of vice
- "Will they board, or keep house?"
- Charity begins at home
- Epilogue : "Decay of the boarding-house".