... , the household depended on her. The fulfillment of this ideal is shown by Mrs. Blodgett's example. Rebecca Whitmore Blodgett's husband bought, a month before their marriage, a rocking chair and six dining chairs. In the months following the wedding, Mrs. Blodgett brought to the store forty palm-leaf hats whose credit value was slightly more than the cost of the ... chairs. Women integrated this "outwork" into their daily lives. An example of this prevalence of outwork is shown by a quote by Henry Bradshaw Fearon in 1818, "A considerable portion of weaving is ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and lamentably failed. Women are also supposed to be content with their lot in life, and show their gratitude by cleaning and cooking and jumping up and down from their chairs'. Ruth no longer does this. She only wants to receive, but not give, love. She wants to take everything and return nothing'. The Good Wife's Litany, which Ruth used to ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... everyone around her to "stop talking to look at her, admiring her dress, her jewels and her strangely attractive self". Some of the younger ones at the Ball stood on chairs to see her. Vivian's physical transformation also has the same effect of awe on the people around her. After returning home from shopping on Rodeo Drive, Vivian, now dressed sophisticatedly ... ...

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