Notes

Table of contents: Good housekeeping : the wisdom of a methodical approach to housework -- The child : protecting the mothers and saving the babies -- The filth : extracting household dirt with vim and vigour -- The husband : landing, and then managing, her man -- The kitchen : keeping the tins full and getting dinner on the table -- The needle : deft exponents of the domestic arts -- The neighbour : sisterly bonding, or perhaps not -- The shopping : it's not always easy, shopping -- The worries : when life got on her nerves -- The servant : saved by the help, plugged and unplugged -- The tub : making it through blue Monday -- The interior : transforming the house into a home -- Putting her feet up : and so to rest, briefly