Reorienting "Lost" time : reading Godey's Lady's Book in the Civil War

• Main Author: Hand, Charlotte
• Other Authors: Christopher Peter Trigg
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Humanities::Language
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78902
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In antebellum America, women were masters of the multiple, competing temporalities that organised the nation, but not of their own time. Domestic manuals, diaries, and letters of women across the North and South reveal that they synchronised their domestic duties and leisure hours with the schedu...