Ramsey County History – Spring 1971: “Wife, Mother—Doing the Work Of Six: ‘For The Sake Of Being Supported’”

Wife, Mother—Doing the Work Of Six: ‘For The Sake Of Being Supported’                                                                                                                                                                                                Author: Bonnie Ellis

Women’s work in the late nineteenth century—cleaning, cooking, mending, ironing, slopping, sewing, planning—to say nothing (and nothing is said) of child care. The article describes in some detail the physical work of homemaking in the Victorian era.