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| Title | Cottage Comforts, with Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience: Enlivened from Authentic Anecdotes Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks |
| Author | Esther Copley |
| Edition | 12 |
| Publisher | Simpkin and Marshall, 1834 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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