Well, so far we have looked at household maid and the laundry maid, so we now move on to take a look at what would have been expected of the cook according to Mrs Parkes. Her description of the rol…
Well, so far we have looked at household maid and the laundry maid, so we now move on to take a look at what would have been expected of the cook according to Mrs Parkes. Her description of the rol…
It’s not quite true that I haven’t been sewing this year, I have worked on a couple of small cap and embroidery projects. But that is just a...
The split bum, perfect for 1776 - 1790s, worn with polonaise and Italian gowns. This is particularly effective for gowns with the skirts pulled up. From the American Duchess Guide. Ah, bum pads...nothing like wearing a pillow around your waist to make your derriere look bigger!
Lighting mentioned prior to 1775 [in particular the period between 1700 and 1775] includes: candles, torches, lamps, candles for burning in “lamps” or lanthorns, rush, splinters, etc. In 1704, Ps…
Well, so far we have looked at household maid and the laundry maid, so we now move on to take a look at what would have been expected of the cook according to Mrs Parkes. Her description of the rol…
Well, so far we have looked at household maid and the laundry maid, so we now move on to take a look at what would have been expected of the cook according to Mrs Parkes. Her description of the rol…
I started this series early last fall as a lesson in the safety of period clothing, then as a survey of evidence of women in "work" clothes. Images, engravings, and paintings of women doing daily chores invite us into their daily lives, like a snapshot to the 19th Century. The Tin Cup, 1864 by John George Brown I'm still not sure what the mother in this painting is doing, laundry maybe? Notice her light sun-bonnet and apron, but serving functionally. It appears that she may also have on a work petticoat under that apron. Canal Street Market, 1860 by Henry Mosler This painting of Canal Street Market has so much going on! Look at the aprons, the bonnets, the baskets! Its a look into bustling street scene that gives so much detail I encourage you to look at it large and see all of those wonderful details that Mosler included. Here we do see at least two wonderful sunbonnets in different styles. Engraving of a Laundress, Harper's Weekly Sept 1862. This is a war time engraving printed in Harper's Weekly, Sept 26, 1862. This laundress has her skirts pulled up around her and her sleeves either pushed up, or may even be a short sleeve dress. I love that her hair is coming loose and we can see those stray ends falling out! Makes me feel good about my hair being a mess while running round. For more in this series & to see more images, please read Part 1 & Part 2
Following on from our previous articles about career choices in the eighteenth-century, from 1761, we have some more to share with you, so, here goes. The Barber The boy, intended for this business…
Inquiring readers: Paul Emanuelli, author of Avon Street, has contributed posts for this blog before about the City of Bath as a Character and Law & Order and Jane Austen’s Aunt. He has graciou…
For this post, I am revisiting a book I’ve used before, The Art of Conducting a Family with Instructions to Servants to take a look at some of the guidance for employing servants at the end o…
Well, so far we have looked at household maid and the laundry maid, so we now move on to take a look at what would have been expected of the cook according to Mrs Parkes. Her description of the rol…
When we think of the Victorian era we usually think of voluptuous gowns and embroidered evening wear, women in bustles and tailored silhouettes. For the upper classes this is true, women did waltz around in these status showing dresses, however, this wasn’t the case for the majority of ladies.
I'm a little in love with her outfit which seems a mix between pretty and practical. Her petticoat looks like two-tone silk- her mistress cast-off perhaps? The shoes are very dainty too. But the caraco, or jacket, seems to be woolen and rather loosefitting. The apron seems very practical too, and, I think, pushed into the pocket openings of the jacket. The cap is small and cute too- I think the fabric she has tied around her chin is to make sure it doesn't fall off into the soup... Pehr Hilleström
Inquiring readers: Paul Emanuelli, author of Avon Street, has contributed posts for this blog before about the City of Bath as a Character and Law & Order and Jane Austen’s Aunt. He has graciou…
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Even today our bed is one of the most important objects we purchase, so I thought we would take a look at the beds and bedding of the Georgian Era. The quality of your bed was very much dependent u…
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The wealthy and socially prominent Jane Gilmor Howard, as Mrs. B. C. Howard, wrote the immensely popular 1873 fundraising cookbook. One of the recipes, “Belvidere Rice Pudding” was named for Belvidere, the large 18th century 'seat’ of the Howards, where she lived. Jane Grant Gilmor (1801-1890) married Benjamin Chew Howard (1791-1872) in 1818. She give birth to twelve children, published the cookbook at age 72 (a year after her husband died), and lived to be 89 years old. At 65 Jane Howard was president of the Ladies' Southern Relief Association of Maryland which gathered and dispersed over $164,000 ($2.3 million today) collected at their fair in April 1866. [Report, 1866] More HERE They were both from wealthy Baltimore families. Benjamin was one of six sons and two daughters born to Col. John Eager Howard of Revolutionary War fame and his wife Margaret (Peggy) Chew, daughter of Pennsylvania Chief Justice Benjamin Chew of Cliveden in Philadelphia and courted by the British Major John Andre. Jane's father was William Gilmor, a wealthy merchant who built a mansion on Monument Square and a country house "Vineyard," her uncle was the collector Robert Gilmor, and her aunt Jane Gilmor Grant died a couple years after Jane's birth. Belvidere was Governor John Eager Howard’s mansion with impressive gardens. The estate was just north of Baltimore City in a large wooded area known as "Howard's Woods" on the west side of the Jones Falls river. (Shown in the 1801 map below, in the center with a white arrow pointed at the house and gardens.) Started the year before they married in 1787, they moved into the completed north wing building, until it the central part was finished eight years later. Benjamin was raised on the large estate, and after he wed Jane, the “… early married life of the young couple was passed at Belvidere, and Mrs. Howard, who is now an interesting lady past fourscore, has a very agreeable recollection of the gayety that reigned there when Colonel John Eager Howard was the head of the house.” [Harpers] In 1827, when Col. Howard died, Ben and Jane Howard inherited Belvidere, even though he was the third son, the eldest, John Eager Howard, Jr. had died in Oct. 1822 (with brother-in-law John McHenry in Mercersburg, Pa. where both were buried) and the second son (a future Governor) George had been given another estate, Waverly (now owned by Howard County, MD). After fighting in the War of 1812 and a decade practicing law in Baltimore, Benjamin Chew Howard was elected to four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1829, then spent twenty years as the Recorder of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Belvidere’s garden is described at American Garden History, one of Barbara Sarudy’s impressive blogs. The "Howard mansion house" was bought by wealthy businessman John S. McKim in 1844, (photo) sold to the city for one dollar by his widow in 1874 then demolished to make room for the encroaching Calvert Street. On land once part of Belvidere, The Belvedere - spelled with an e instead of i - hotel was built in 1903 at Charles Street, and still exists. [Appleton’s] Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen by Mrs. B. C. Howard - Jane Grant (Gilmor) Howard - was published in Baltimore in 1873. It was “…produced soley for the purpose of aiding certain benevolent undertakings…” thus she reluctantly allowed her name to be included. Almost all the receipts (recipes) “…have been practically and repeatedly tested by the author in her own family and are the results of careful selection from a collection made during a period of more than fifty years.” She wanted the “simple and practical” instructions to suit the “young housekeeper” or the experienced. Belvidere Rice Pudding Two quarts of new milk. [ 8 C] One gill of rice. [1/2 C] One tea-cupful of brown sugar. [3/4 C] One stick of cinnamon about three inches in length. [1/8-1/4 powdered] Wash the rice to remove the floury particles, and put it into the oven, in the dish in which it is to be served, with the sugar, cinnamon, and half of the milk, reserving the other half to add, a little at a time, as the first stews away. It requires to stew slowly, not boil, from three and a half to four hours, and when finished, should be rather thick, and look like rich yellow cream. No milk must be added the last half hour, as it should be covered with brown skin when sent to table. It should not be stirred or disturbed, except by the addition of the milk, while in the oven. Note: After 4 hours of slow baking, the rice pudding becomes very thick and viscous. Well worth the time. However the resulting crust was not the best. Perhaps improved if topped with dabs of butter during the last hour - as my grandmother used to do. Generally I remove the crust with each addition of milk, and stir in the milk and rice on the sides. other posts on Jane Grant (Gilmor) Howard HERE - Ladies’ Southern Relief Association fair of 1866 raising $millions HERE Waverly Jumbles HERE and Waverly Mansion HERE Many recipes by Jane Howard HERE Endnotes - Appleton’s Journal. NY: Dec 26, 1874 black and white sketch of house Harpers Magazine, 1882 McKim, Randolph H. A Soldier’s Recollections…a young Confederate. NY: 1910 photograph Report of the Ladies' Southern Relief Association of Maryland. 1866. Also mentioned in her New York Times obit, and other newspapers around the country. Sully, Thomas. First portrait. Maryland Historical Society. 1820 Warner + Hanna's Map, Plan of the City of Baltimore. 1801 Johns Hopkins University Weidenbach, Augustus. Belvedere. c1869 Maryland Historical Society second image ©2014 Patricia Bixler Reber HOME
