<p><i>The American Womans Home</i>, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential <i>Treatise on Domestic Economy</i> (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in <i>The Atlantic</i> in the 1860s. </p>
