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Huswifery

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Hus´wife`ry
n.1.The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
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In "`Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds': Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women," Mary Thomas Crane also performs a philological tour de force.
Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period by Rose, Mary Beth / Shakespeare Studies
Jonson's poem ends with the highest compliments for Lady Barbara Sidney, born Gamage, whose Penshurst huswifery was apparently of a truly impeccable standard.
From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: the English country house from ... by Graham, Peter W. / Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
62) Lady Sandwich came to expect his company, "(she lying prettily in bed)," and to talk with him privately "of innocent discourse of huswifery and husbands for her daughters, and the luxury and looseness of the times and other such things .
Friendship and family in early modern England: the sociability of ... by Westhauser, Karl E. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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