The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 Quotes

“Every individual,” wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.”
― Jack Larkin, The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840: 1790-1840