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Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868 Household woman.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05169 Author/Creator: Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript signed Date: 18 June 1868 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 18.8 cm Order a Copy

Poem expressing the sentiment that woman's highest calling is performing household tasks. She provides a key to the persons in the poem and notes that the 1st, 2d, 3d and last stanzas were written originally in 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina, while the remainder was written in Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts in June 1863.

Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868

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