Cottage Comforts, With Hints For Promoting Them, Gleaned From Experience: Enlivened From Authentic Anecdotes - Softcover

Esther Copley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461756307 ISBN 13: 9780461756302

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Cottage Comforts, With Hints For Promoting Them, Gleaned From Experience: Enlivened From Authentic Anecdotes by Esther Copley presents a practical, early-19th-century handbook for how to live frugally, wisely, and morally in a cottage economy. The book begins by outlining a moral foundation—integrity, sincerity, prudence, self-denial, industry, frugality, cleanliness, and subordination—as prerequisites for comfortable living among labouring families. It then guides readers through choosing and occupying a cottage, furnishing it, and managing incomes and expenditures, including home brewing, baking, and cooking, with extensive advice on dairy work and garden economies. The later chapters cover the care of infants, management of sickness and accidents, education of children, and wholesome recreations. Throughout, the narrative blends admonitions with authentic anecdotes and practical routines, from bread-making and beer-brewing to medicinal simples and waste-not thrifty habits. The text advocates self-reliance, diligent record-keeping, and good neighborliness as paths to security, virtue, and enduring happiness within modest means.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461756307
• ISBN 13: 9780461756302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258