Biographical and Critical Sources
Biester, Charlotte E. “Catharine Beecher’s Views of Home Economics.” History of Education, Journal 3, no. 3 (1952): 88-91, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3659182.
“Catharine Esther Beecher.” The Ledger, Litchfield Historical Society,
https://ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/3209.
DePauw, Karen. “Much Good Might Be Accomplished: Catharine Esther Beecher and the Pursuit of Domestic Economy.” Connecticut History (2021),
https://connecticuthistory.org/much-good-might-be-accomplished-catharine-esther-beecher-and-the-pursuit-of-domestic-economy/.
Michals, Debra. “Catharine Beecher.” National Women’s History Museum (2015),
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/catharine-esther-beecher#:~:text=Born%20in%20East%20Hampton%2C%20New,attended%20the%20Litchfield%20Female%20Academy.
Pilver, Erika E. “Hartford Female Seminary is Founded.” EBSCO (2023),
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hartford-female-seminary-founded.
Preston, Jo Anne. “Domestic Ideology, School Reformers, and Female Teachers: School teaching Becomes Women’s Work in Nineteenth-Century New England.” The New England Quarterly 66, no. 4 (1993): 531–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/366032.
Sturges, Michael. “Catharine Beecher: Champion of Women’s Education.” Connecticut History (2015), https://connecticuthistory.org/catharine-beecher-champion-of-womens-education/.
Catherine Beecher Works Referenced
A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at
Home, and at School, rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841), Project Gutenberg, last updated July 8, 2007, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21829/21829-h/21829-h.htm#CHAPTER_I.
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of
American Females (Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1837), Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.essayonslavery00beech/?st=gallery&c=160.
“Circular: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the United States,”
(1829), Teaching American History,
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/circular-addressed-to-benevolent-ladies-of-the-united-states/. wams.nyhistory.org+10teachingamericanhistory.org+10teachingamericanhistory.org+10.
With Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman’s Home: Or,
Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes (New York and Boston: J.B. Ford & Company and H.A. Brown & Co., 1869), Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/07035680/.
Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education, Presented to the
Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary (Packard and Butler, 1829).
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044096987847&seq=9.