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100	1		_aPhilp, Robert Kemp, _d1819-1882
245	1	4	_aThe practical housewife
250			_aNew edition, revised and greatly enlarged.
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-03-10
508			_aJulia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"The practical housewife" by Robert Kemp Philp is a comprehensive household manual and family medical guide written in the mid-19th century. It focuses on domestic economy and home management—covering budgeting, housekeeping routines, cookery, servant supervision, sanitation, and basic care of the sick—teaching not only what to do, but why. The opening of the volume presents it as an encyclopedic, practical aid for housewives, prefaced by a call to treat home management as a serious, learned discipline. A preface frames the home as a “citadel” where the husband labors outside and the wife safeguards health, order, and thrift within; it previews maxims on housekeeping, children’s management, invalid care, cookery, carving, and table arrangement, while excluding needlework. Early chapters urge training girls in real domestic skills, advocate moderation (avoiding both slovenliness and fussy over-management), and promise clear guidance “seriatim.” The text then turns practical: choosing and renting a healthy house, avoiding wasteful wedding and furnishing habits, preferring sturdy, simple furniture and iron bedsteads, selecting safe kitchenware, and managing purchases, accounts, and stores with scales and weekly bill-paying. Further sections stress health (ablution, ventilation, light, early rising, temperance), sensible marketing and dinner planning, simple social entertaining, and firm, considerate servant management, culminating in a detailed daily routine for a single servant—from lighting fires and dusting to room cleaning, meal service, and evening turn-down. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Houlston & Wright, 1860
653			_aHome economics
653			_aMedicine, Popular
653			_aFormulas, recipes, etc.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78164
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