HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA
First edition of this Gilded-Age handbook for the aspiring Floridian, by a passionate lover of the land and its lizards.
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Price: $300.00
HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA
"Lizards: What a horror some of our Florida sisters have of these innocent, graceful creatures!"
Comprehensive settler's handbook, intended as a beguiling but practical introduction to Florida for prospective Floridians: the state's features, enticements, and attractions, alongside its "trials and tribulations": insects, "Harmless Lizards," and other familiar features of the deep Southeast. The author of FLORIDA FRUITS AND HOW TO RAISE THEM, Harcourt champions every type of Florida industry but has especially encouraging words for the aspiring farmer or orange grower. A much less entertaining, but historically instructive chapter discusses the problems of household management for Florida women, and the availability and hiring of (female) domestic labor. The book is written for a reader understood to be white, with explicit complaints against Black Floridian domestic workers who showed less deference and submission than she preferred. Harcourt likewise warns that employing migrant white domestic servants from the North was no guarantee of better service: because they, too, might pick up the habit of too much self-respect from the easy Florida climate and begin to expect equality with their employers.
A vital piece of regional history, and a difficult but rich document of power relations among women of different classes and races in the post-Civil War Southeast.
The Object
Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1889. 7.5'' x 5''. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, silver, and black. Decorative brown patterned endpapers. 433, [1] pages. Faint water-spotting to rear board. Light edgewear, minor sunning to spine.
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