If I Had My Own Blue Box:

I’m working on an article for the Citizen’s Companion on Chocolate in the Nineteenth Century. What a perfect research topic to appease boredom and chocolate cravings (which I get when I am bored and stressed.) The article will look at chocolate as it became more readily available due to several inventions during the industrial revolution. It will also include a variety of chocolate recipies. Here is a recipe for one of my favorite chocolates:

“Chocolate Drops, with Nonpareils. –Have some warm chocolate, as for pistachios; add a little butter or oil to it to make it work more free; make it into balls about the size of a small marble, by rolling a little in the hand, or else put some of the paste on a flat piece of wood, on which you form, and take them off with a knife. Place them on sheets of white paper about an inch apart. When the sheet is covered, take it by the corners and lift it up and down, letting it touch the table each time, which will flatten them. Cover the surface entirely with white nonpareils, and shake off the surplus ones. When the drops are cold they can be taken off the paper easily. The bottom of the drops should be about as broad as a sixpence. Some of them may be left quite plain.” (The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-Cook and Baker)

 Here are some passages referencing where women put their gloves, fan, purse, etc.: 

(a younger girl) “she fancied how her mamma would smile and kiss her, and how her papa would look pleased; and then she thought she would just take the gloves out of her pocket to see how tidy they were. She put her hand into her pocket, and pulled out first her pocket-handkerchief, and then some pretty colour pebbles which she had picked up during her walk, but her gloves were not there; there was no use feeling quite down to the bottom of the pocket, and turning it inside out, and shaking it – the gloves were actually quite gone; though Helen looked anxiously along the gravel walk and in and out among the raspberry bushes, she could not see them anywhere.”

Blind man’s holiday; or, Short tales for the nursery, by the author of ‘Mia and Charlie’.: or, Short tales for the nursery, by the author of ‘Mia and Charlie’.

By Annie Keary

Published 1860

London

This is a child “…as Effie took out of her pocket her gloves, or pocket-handkerchief, or something or  other, she pulled out at the same time Fritz’s letter and dropped it.” 

 By mrs. Florence Williamson

By William Kirkus

Published 1864

London

 “She [Clara] took the gloves, thrust them roughly into the pocket of her dress, bowed coldly and haughtily to the restorer of them, and turned again towards the party with whom she had previously been conversing.”

Chambers’s Edinburgh journal

By William Chambers, Robert Chambers

Published by W. & R. Chambers, 1853

Edinburgh

 “ ‘That reminds me,’ observed Maria, a young lady with some pretensions to good looks, ‘I had better put on my gloves; I have let my hands grow coarse and brown lately that I am ashamed of them, and just because it was too hot to cover them. I think my gloves must be in my bag;’ and diving into the profundities of a black silk affair which hung from her arm, and which also contained her missal and pocket-handkerchief, she withdrew the gloves, and commenced pulling them on.”

The slave son

By Marcella Fanny Wilkins, William Noy Wilkins

Published by Chapman and Hall, 1854

 

“She, supposing it to be some slur upon her religion, carelessly slipped it into her pocket and thought no more of it. The following morning, as she was taking her gloves out of her pocket, the piece of paper fell to the ground, and on examining it she found it to be a guinea note.”

The living sacrifice; or, A short biographical notice of Sarah Bentley: or, a short biographical notice of Sarah Bentley, of York ….

By John Lyth, Sarah Bentley

Contributor W. R. Lyth

Published by W.R. Lyth, 1848

 

“Having carefully rolled up, and deposited her gloves in her pocket, she pulled out a pin-cushion…”

Marriage: A novel

By Susan Ferrier

Published by Harper & brothers, 1847

 

“Her gloves were rolled up in a little ball in her pocket. She was at an age when gloves are rather a nuisance then otherwise.” [meaning an older age]

The doctor’s wife, by the author of ‘Lady Audley’s secret’.

By Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Published 1864

London

 

“Confident of success, she talked and laughed with unusual liveliness, and as soon as the meal was over, she went out with the fan in her pocket, and Charles by the hand.” [French setting possible]

Seven Years, and Other Tales

By Julia Kavanagh

Published by Hurst and Blackett, 1860

 

“‘Have you my fan?’ said Mrs. Quigg. I clapped my hand to the pocket where it should have been. There was no fan there. It was gone.”

The United States Democratic Review

By Thomas Prentice Kettell, Making of America Project, Conrad Swackhamer, D. W Holly, Spencer Wallace Cone, Isaac Lawrence

Published by Langtree and O’Sullivan, 1855

“ ‘Are you too hot, my dear?’ asked her tormentor, taking a fan out of her pocket, and raising as she spoke…”

The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of ‘Marriage’. Revised by the author

By Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Published 1841

 

“Taking a box from her pocket, which she said contained the finest lozenges in the world for the preservation of the voice, she requested that one of the gentlemen would have the goodness to provide her with a glass of water, which was placed by the side of her pocket-handkerchief, the box, the fan, and the smelling-bottle.”

“Modern Accomplishments” Home and the world

By Mrs W Rives

Published by D. Appleton and company, 1857

New York

 

“It is a good practice to carry a pocket fan even in winter, in case you should chance to feel the heat more sensibly than any other lady in the room.”

The behaviour book: a manual for ladies / by Miss Leslie

By Eliza Leslie, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Published by W.P. Hazard, 1853

Philadelphia

 

“She took a fan from her pocket….”

Autumn hours and fireside reading

By Caroline Matilda Kirkland

Published by Charles Scribner, 1854

 

“….she stepped into the carriage, took a place beside Madame d’Epplen, and demurely drew from her pocket a large fan, the movement causing the exposure of a pair of strong gauntlet gloves that had been concealed beneath, and which immediately protruded from their hiding-place, to the no small amusement of her companions.”

At Odds: A Novel

By Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus

Published by R. Bentley, 1863

 London

 

“‘Dear me, Mrs. Colton, I’m exhausted coming up those vile stairs!’ said Mrs. Fountain, drawing out of her pocket a beautifully carved fan, which she opened and began fanning herself, and displayed at the same time her white hand, which was covered with diamond and opal rings…”

Portraits of My Married Friends, Or, A Peep Into Hymen’s Kingdom: Or, A Peep Into Hymen’s Kingdom

By Uncle Ben, Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman White

Published by Appleton, 1858

“The consciousness of this did not flash upon Mabel until she had drawn the
little silver reticule from her pocket and exposed her destitution …”

Mabel Vaugh by Maria Susanna Cummins – 1857

 

“Steadying herself against the post of the folding- door, she took a pair of
scissors from her pocket”

 All The Year Round by Charles Dickens – 1862

“She drew an elaborately worked purse of green silk from her pocket and counted out into my hand three pieces of old French gold.”

”John Heathborn’s Tale” Harper’s new monthly magazine

By Henry Mills Alden, Sarah Orne Jewett, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Published by Harper & Brothers, 1864

 

[Queen Elizabeth] “A pocket looking-glass hangs from her side, and a fan is clasped in fingers loaded with precious stones…”

“Curiosities of Fashion, in the Matter of dress”

Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature

By John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell

Published by Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1863

 

“A large fan of peacock feathers hung from her wrist….” [fanciful]

“The Toad’s Curse” Graham’s magazine

By George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

Published by G.R. Graham, 1853

A couple weeks ago I started collecting images of women wearing corsets while working for the local museum I volunteer at. (see this thread http://thesewingacademy.org/index.php?topic=4833.0) Thank you all very much for sending images. The Director I was working with is very happy with what we put together. While looking for images, I sent a message to Connie at the CC. She found the search interesting and wondered if I could take it a bit further by looking at what women wore while working in the mid-century. So, as a research/writing project to work on once I get resettled, I’ve decided to look at support garments as worn during various types of work/labor in the mid-century and by those currently doing living history. As part of the latter section, I put together a short survey on SurveyMonkey asking about support garment habits of reenactors. (SurveyMonkey limited the number of questions I could ask with a free account. So, the questions are narrowed down from what I started with.) If you would like to participate, the survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jj0CcjV5sg70sWALz6_2bgBA_3d_3d There are questions about what support garments you wear under different situations, about the fit of your corset and what influences when/how you wear it. The survey is anonymous. So, please answer truthfully as possible.

Andrews, Edward Deming. The People Called Shakers. New York: Dover, 1963.

Cohen, Daniel. Not of the World: History of the Commune in America. Chicago: Follett, 1979.

Dustin, S. S.. “Zoar and the Zoarites” Frank Leslies’ Popular Monthly. New York: August, 1890. (Available at http://www.zoarohio.com)

Fogarty, Robert All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Halloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880. New York: Dover, 1961.

Hayden, Delores. Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1976.

Hinds, William Alfred. American Communities and Co-operative Colonies. Chicago: Kerr, 1908.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Kern, Louis. An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopians. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Ness, Immanuel, Ed.. Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 2004.

Nordhoff, Charles. The Communistic Societies of the United Stated: From Personal Visit and Observation. 1875. Reprinted Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House, 1978.

Noyes, John Humphrey, History of American Socialisms. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1870. Reprinted as Strange Cults and Utopians in 19th-century America. New York: Dover Publications, 1966.

Shi, David E. The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Streissguth, Thomas. Utopian Visionaries. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1999. (School-age text.)

A Summary View of the Millenial Church: Commonly Called Shakers (1848) available at Google Books.

Allen, Ann
The Housekeeper’s Assistant, Composed Upon Temperance Principles … [charity & church; temperance]
1845 Boston
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_13.cfm

American Tract Society
Select temperance tracts
186-?
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHL9078.0001.001

Brown, Thurlow W. (d. 1866)
Why I Am a Temperance Man [fiction?]
1853
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;idno=Wright2-0389

Buckley, Maria L
Edith Moreton, or, Temperance Versus Intemperance [fiction?]
1852
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;idno=Wright2-0410

Cornyn, John K
Dick Wilson, the rum-seller’s victim: or, Humanity pleading for the “Maine law.” A temperance story…
1853
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABF2585.0001.001

Delavan, Edward Cornelius, 1793-1871, ed
Temperance essays, & selections from different authors….
1869 4ed
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHL9091.0001.001

How, Samuel Blanchard, 1790-1868
An Address on Intemperance, Delivered Before The Temperance Soc., Cumberland County, Pa. [Presbyterian ministe
1830Carlisl
http://deila.dickinson.edu/theirownwords/title/0011.htm

Kidder, D. P.
The Minister’s Study and Scenes Connected With It [temperance]
1849 NY
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?TitleID=444

Lees, Frederic Richard, 1815-97
Text-book of temperance
1869
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEU2708.0001.001

Mann, Horace
Lectures (I) Effects of intemperance on the poor & ignorant (II) Intemperance on the rich & educated
1852
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHL8970.0001.001

Marsh, John, 1788-1868
Temperance recollections…Labors, defeats, triumphs. An autobiography
1866
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEV6918.0001.001

Marsh, John, 1788-1868
The temperance battle not man’s but God’s: For instruction…of the friends of temperance, US
1858
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEV6921.0001.001

McKillop, Archibald
Temperance Odes & Miscellaneous Poems
1860?
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=c7dd7ce426&doc=61491

Nott, Eliphalet, 1773-1866
Lectures on temperance…(intro. by Taylor Lewis)
1857
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHL9092.0001.001

Palmer, Lynde
The Little Captain. A Temperance Tale [Amer. Tract Soc.]
1861 Bost.
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?TitleID=529

Whole world’s temperance conv., NY, 1853
1853
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?naw:1:./temp/~ammem_Pu8s::

 

Other Bibliographies on Transcendentalism

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/resources/tr-bib.html

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4biblio.html

 

19th Century Source List

Radical problems.

Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900.

Boston,: Roberts brothers, 1872.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGV0206.0001.001 Chapter 3, page 61

 

 A half century of the Unitarian controversy, with particular reference to its origin, its course, and its prominent subjects among the Congregationalists of Massachusetts.: With an appendix,

  Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894.

Boston,: Crosby, Nichols, and company, 1857.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJK3655.0001.001

 

 Philosophy as absolute science, founded in the universal laws of being, and including ontology, theology, and psychology made one, as spirit, soul, and body:

  Frothingham, Ephraim Langdon.

Boston,: Walker, Wise and company, 1864.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFX2789.0001.001 (see table of contents)

 

 Recent British philosophy: a review, with criticisms;

  Masson, David, 1822-1907.

New York,: D. Appleton and company, 1866.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFX3590.0001.001

 

 History of American socialisms.: by John Humphrey Noyes.

  Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886.

Philadelphia,: Lippincott, 1870.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEW0523.0001.001

 

 Elements of intellectual philosophy.: Designed for a text book and private reading.

  Winslow, Hubbard, 1799-1864.

Boston,: Jenks, Hickling, & Swan; [etc., etc.], 1853.

ttp://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJE5907.0001.001 Chapter 3, page 165 Articles

 

 Elements of Psychology. By Victor Cousin; Introduction to the History of Philosophy. By Victor Cousin; An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge,Sunday, 15th July, 1838. By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Princeton review. / Volume 11, Issue: 1, Jan 1839, pp. 37-101

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acf4325.1-11.001

 

Emerson’s Essays

The United States Democratic review. / Volume 16, Issue 84

J.& H.G. Langley, etc. June 1845, pp. 589-602

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AGD1642-0016&byte=222125475

 

Mr. Emerson and Transcendentalism

The American Whig review. / Volume 1, Issue 3

Wiley and Putnam, etc. Mar 1845, pp. 233-243

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABL5306-0001&byte=232792372

 

Speculative Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

The American Whig review. / Volume 13, Issue 77

Wiley and Putnam, etc. May 1851, pp. 458-464

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABL5306-0013&byte=240558065

 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Catholic world / Volume 27, Issue: 157, Apr 1878, pp. 90-97

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0027.157

 

 The Test of Truth

The Southern quarterly review. / Volume 12, Issue: 2, Oct 1855, pp. 471-501

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acp1141.2-12.002

 

 Thoreau and New England Transcendentalism

Catholic world / Volume 27, Issue: 159, June 1878, pp. 289-300

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0027.159

 

 The Transcendental Movement of New England

Catholic world / Volume 23, Issue: 136, July 1876, pp. 528-537

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0023.136

 

 Transcendentalism

The Southern quarterly review. / Volume 2, Issue: 4, Oct 1842, pp. 437-471

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acp1141.1-02.004

 

 Transcendentalism in Political Ethics

The Princeton review. / Volume 31, Issue: 2, Apr 1859, pp. 283-305

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acf4325.1-31.002

 

 Mental Philosophy, Part I

 Grayson, William Spence

Southern literary messenger; devoted to every department of literature and the fine arts. / Volume 21, Issue: 2, Feb 1855, pp. 77-83

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acf2679.0021.002

 

 Dr. Brownson and Catholicity (Conclusion)

 Hecker, Very Rev. I. T.

Catholic world. / Volume 46, Issue: 272, Nov 1887, pp. 222-235

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0046.272

 

 Thomistic-Rosminian Emersonianism; or A Religion for Italy

 Hecker, Rev. I. T.

Catholic world. / Volume 38, Issue: 228, Mar 1884, pp. 799-810

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0038.228

 

 Reason and Faith

 McCosh, Rev. James

The Princeton review. / Volume 32, Issue: 4, Oct 1860, pp. 648-685

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acf4325.1-32.004

 

 A Woman of Culture, Chapter I-II

 Smith, John Talbot

Catholic world / Volume 32, Issue: 187, Oct 1880, pp. 14-32

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0032.187

 

 A Woman of Culture, Chapter V-VII

 Smith, John Talbot

Catholic world / Volume 32, Issue: 189, Dec 1880, pp. 319-344

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0032.189

 

 Transcendentalism

 Tefft, Rev. B. F., D. D.

The Ladies’ repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion. / Volume 8, Issue: 4, Apr 1848, pp. 124-125

 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acg2248.1-08.004