Project Gutenberg 2022-08-22 Public domain in the USA. 153 Diaz, Abby Morton 1821 1904 Diaz, A. M. (Abby Morton) Diaz, Anna M. (Anna Morton) The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in Tweenit $aUnited States :$bJames R. Osgood and Company,$c1874,pubdate 1875. Steve Mattern, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Schoolmaster's Trunk, Containing Papers on Home-Life in Tweenit" by Mrs. A. M. Diaz is a social commentary written in the late 19th century. This work explores the everyday life and struggles of women in a rural village context, particularly focusing on their roles and the cultural expectations surrounding domestic work. The writing presents a protagonist, a schoolmaster, who observes the lives of the village women, prompting reflections on their labor and societal norms. The opening of the narrative introduces the schoolmaster's critical viewpoint on the obsession with culinary duties, particularly the making of pies, which he sees as detrimental to the well-being and freedom of women like Mrs. Fennel. Through his observations and interactions, he highlights the exhausting cycle of household chores that consume the lives of these women, limiting their time for personal growth and intellectual pursuits. As he grapples with the societal expectations placed on women, the schoolmaster contemplates writing an "Appeal to Women," intending to spark a conversation about the necessity and change of these entrenched norms. This sets the stage for a deeper exploration of gender roles, domesticity, and the quest for liberation within the quaint yet restrictive village of Tweenit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/schoolmasterstrunk00diaziala/page/n5/mode/2up 20220706094445diaz 1874 US Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Country life -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies 170870 2025-06-27T08:29:13.832988 text/html 146136 2024-10-19T00:09:47 text/html 1416440 2025-06-27T08:29:20.199947 application/epub+zip 1414527 2025-06-27T08:29:16.265031 application/epub+zip 521259 2025-06-27T08:29:14.797995 application/epub+zip 1876734 2025-06-27T08:29:22.744946 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1606221 2025-06-27T08:29:19.142952 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 961342 2022-09-30T23:23:42.902575 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 148308 2025-06-27T08:29:13.509007 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 128155 2024-10-19T00:09:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17063 2025-06-27T08:29:22.874944 application/rdf+xml 10592 2025-06-27T08:29:15.296976 image/jpeg 1865 2025-06-27T08:29:15.044018 image/jpeg 2625659 2025-06-27T08:29:13.899982 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia