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The final article of the Atlantic Monthly’s series on cooperative housekeeping appeared in March 1869. Although published in Boston, Massachusetts, the magazine was widely read in England, and must have found its way into many middle-class homes where wives and daughters were trying to cope with the impossible demands of housekeeping. Domestic manuals still emphasised the idyllic qualities of the English home, the ‘world-received type of domestic bliss’, while ‘Health and happiness, joy and sorrow, are more or less dependent on the good or evil of [the wife’s] presence.’1
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Pearson, L.F. (1988). Mrs E. M. King and the English Response. In: The Architectural and Social History of Cooperative Living. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19122-2_3
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