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Bits About Home Matters

Bits About Home Matters

by Helen Hunt JACKSON (1830 - 1885)

This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary by ashleighjane)


01 - The Inhumanities of Parents - Corporal Punishment

02 - The Inhumanities of Parents - Needless Denials

03 - The Inhumanities of Parents - Rudeness

04 - Breaking the Will

05 - The Reign of Archelaus

06 - The Awkward Age

07 - A Day With a Courteous Mother

08 - Children in Novia Scotia

09 - The Republic of the Family

10 - The Ready-to-Halts

11 - The Descendants of Nabal

12 - "Boys Not Allowed"

13 - Half an Hour in a Railway Station

14 - A Genius for Affection

15 - Rainy Days

16 - Friends of the Prisoners

17 - A Companion for the Winter

18 - Choice of Colors

19 - The Apostle of Beauty

20 - English Lodging-Houses

21 - Wet the Clay

22 - The King's Friend

23 - Learning to Speak

24 - Private Tyrants

25 - Margin

26 - The Fine Art of Smiling

27 - Death-bed Repentance

28 - The Correlation of Moral Forces

29 - A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner

30 - Children's Parties

31 - After-Supper Talk

32 - Hysteria in Literature

33 - Jog Trot

34 - The Joyless American

35 - Spiritual Teething

36 - Glass Houses

37 - The Old-Clothes Monger in Journalism

38 - The Country Landlord's Side

39 - The Good Staff of Pleasure

40 - Wanted - a Home