The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Houses and Homes -- 1 Away from Home -- 2 Keeping House -- 3 ""The Most Cruel and Thankless Way a Woman Can Earn Her Living"" -- 4 Boarders' Beefs -- 5 Nests of Crime and Dens of Vice -- 6 ""Will They Board, or Keep House?"" -- 7 Charity Begins at Home -- Epilogue. ""Decay of the Boarding-House"" -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations