The Dear-Bought Heritage / / Eugenie Andruss Leonard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Leonard, Eugenie Andruss,
• MitwirkendeR: Smith, Margaret Chase,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1965]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 1965
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. From Whence They Came -- 2. Ah Wilderness, We Learned Thy Ways -- 3. From Shanties to Mansions -- 4. She Rose up While it is yet Night and Gave Meat to her Household -- 5. She Laid Her Hand to the Distaff and Spindle -- 6. Clothing Became an Industry -- 7. Survival of Mind and Body -- 8. First She Learned the Techniques of Survival -- 9. The Education for More Than Survival -- 10. The Rights With Which They Wrought -- 11. Rights of Women in Economic Servitude -- 12. She Struggled with God and the Devil -- 13. The Coming of Tolerance -- 14. Above and Beyond Their Duties as Housewives and Mothers -- 15. She Expanded Her Home to House Her Financial Enterprises -- 16. From Home to Factory and Work Situation -- 17. Blossoms of the Heart and Scions of the Mind -- 18. More Treasures of the Mind -- 19. Ferments at Work -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index