Under the Gables

Here I am reading about housework rather than doing it. (Actually, this is Sunlight and Shadow by Winslow Homer, 1872) In case you missed ...

This picture from Shorpy is captioned: "January 1940. 'Family living in a 'crackerbox' slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Penn...

The Writing Chair by Andrew Wyeth. My mother was an artist of subtraction. When she died, I was astounded to find that there really wasn...

"Mrs. Blackett was one who knew the uses of a parlor." Upon rereading Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs , I was ...

Detail from the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1425. Women, it seems, enjoy reading about other women or girls doing housekeeping chor...

Young Girl Ironing by Louis Leopold Boilly, 1761-1845. Very few women I know like to iron, and quite a few hate it. So I have found it odd t...

Knitting in Highbridge Park was painted in 1918 by George Luks. Highbridge Park sits on the Manhattan side of the Harlem River separating n...