The Tale of the Spinning Wheel

The Tale of the Spinning Wheel

The Tale of the Spinning-Wheel is revised and enlarged from a paper read before the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Connecticut; New England Society in the City of New York, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City; Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, D. A. R., Litchfield; Judea Chapter, D. A. R., Washington, Connecticut; Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Boston; Katherine Gaylord Chapter, D. A. R., Bristol, Connecticut; Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America, New Haven, and also in Hartford; Denver Chapter, D. A. R., Denver, Colorado; Warren and Prescott Chapter, D. A. R., Boston, Massachusetts; viii Orford Parish Chapter, D. A. R., South Manchester, Connecticut; National Arts Club, New York; Esther Stanley Chapter, D. A. R., New Britain, Connecticut; Annual Spring Conference, Connecticut D. A. R., at Middletown; Dorothy Ripley Chapter, D. A. R., Southport, Connecticut; Wiltwyck Chapter, D. A. R., Kingston, New York; Litchfield Club, Litchfield, Connecticut, etc., etc. The spinning-wheelsymbol of the dignity of womans labor.What wealth of memory gathers around the homely implement, homely indeed in the good old sense of the wordbecause belonging to the home. Home-made and home-spun are honorable epithets, replete with significance, for in them we find the epitome of the lives and labors of our foremothers. The plough and the axe are not more symbolic of the winning of this country from the wilderness, nor the musket of the winning of its freedom, than is the spinning-wheel in womans hands the symbol of both. So symbolic is it also of womans toil, of womans distinctive and universal occupation, nay, of woman herself, that the distaff side of the house has always been expressive of the womans family, and spinster is still the legal title of unmarried women in the common law of England. Most ancient of all household implements, it has been used 4 in one form or another by queen, princess, and serving-maid, by farmers wife and nobles daughter, until it stands to-day a silent witness to the fundamental democracy of mankind. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 58950
Author: Buel, Elizabeth C. Barney (Elizabeth Cynthia Barney)
Release Date: Feb 23, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939