To Love & to Cherish: Brides Remembered [Paperback]

Linda Otto Lipsett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

Lipsett presents an intimate picture of cour tship, love and marriage in the 19th century through these a ccounts of hundreds of brides, their hopes, sorrows and triu mphs. Quilters can even choose from 3 patterns to create the ir own heirloom quilt. '

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From Publishers Weekly

Paying tribute to marital Americana, Lipsett ( Remember Me: Women & Their Friendship Quilts ) surveys our indigenous rites of courtship and marriage. Several customs are surprising (shotgun weddings were commonplace during Revolutionary times) and others hilarious: to preserve decorum while hastening romance, during the early 19th century "Connecticut Valley young lovers spoke to one another from opposite ends of the fireplace through a courting stick, a long hollow tube with mouth and earpieces." Among the poorer people in northeastern states, young women of the same era were under much pressure to "bundle," or keep supposedly chaste company with a suitor on a bed or couch while well wrapped against the winter cold. Victorian strictures may have encouraged the art of flirtation to flower, especially in the "twenty-two different motions" young ladies learned to execute with their handkerchiefs, but frontier women more often had to rough it where manners and wedding matters were concerned. Writing with conversational enthusiasm, and distributing photographs generously throughout, Lipsett offers a light and entertaining account of things domestic.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 133 pages
• Publisher: Quilt Digest (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844226513
• ISBN-13: 978-0844226514
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,405,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars To Love and To Cherish, January 3, 2007

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This review is from: To Love & to Cherish: Brides Remembered (Paperback)

This is a beautiful book which illustrates some of the history of quilting in a touching, personal manner. I found it to be heartwarming as it tells the story of a number of women and the hardships they endured as pioneers. Their stories are told by means of pictures, diary entries, letters and of course, their beloved quilts. I enjoyed reading this book just for the sheer pleasure of learning about this historical era and highly recommend it to anyone who loves both history and quilting.