Bits about Home Matters
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Helen Hunt Jackson published these essays on home matters in 1873, signing herself H. H. beside her Verses and Bits of Travel. Contents read like a conscience for parents: the inhumanities of parents in corporal punishment, needless denials, and rudeness; breaking the will; the awkward age; and the republic of the family. A day with a courteous mother stands as the pattern household.
Prisons test her metaphor in one essay, Friends of the Prisoners. A story of double walls of iron grating, with a cruel, empty space between crowded with words and looks, haunted her for days. Then she turned it: who of us is not in prison, living behind bars of custom and fear? Jackson's domestic essays mix nursery government with sudden depths, the same moral pressure she later turned on the nation's treatment of its Indians.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Helen Hunt Jackson |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 292 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |