Just a brief note because … it’s May 4. Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! And happy pub date for The Secret History of Home Economics! I am so thrilled by the amazing press it’s received so far, and so excited for you all to read the book at last. Such unexpectedly fortuitous timing to kick up a conversation about home ec.
Hi, Danielle Dreilinger, I was researching your name because I was following up an article you wrote for the Boston Globe about a Barbara Pym Conference. Lo and behold, I find this reference to a book that fits neatly into a weekly blog I write. This particular week features cookery, as I reviewed a relevant book for NetGalley. The blog features cookery from many aspects, some of which are feminist. Your book fits really well, so I have used your blurb (edited to take into account the time lag) in the blog. The book looks fascinating, and l shall do as I have been asking my friends to do about my book, request it at my library. Danielle, if you are the journalist who wrote about BP in 2011 I would very much appreciate being in touch if you have a public email address. In the meantime, congratulations on your book. I love the idea of creating a new way of looking at home economics, and shall enjoy reading it. I cannot find it on my kindle - is there an ebook version?
I just read the book and it is AMAZING. I'm a knitter, spinner, and garment sewer (sewist? sempster/seamstress? so many words) who didn't take home ec but has made a quiet history project of it and you have written THE EXACT BOOK I've been looking for! I can talk your ear off about Ellen Richards and Catherine Beecher, blah blah blah, but I didn't have any of the info about the Black home economics pioneers and experts and I knew it had to be out there somewhere. Great job!
Congratulations, Danielle! Looking forward to reading. So good to meet you when you were conducting research in Purdue University Archives. Best wishes with the book.
Hi, Danielle Dreilinger, I was researching your name because I was following up an article you wrote for the Boston Globe about a Barbara Pym Conference. Lo and behold, I find this reference to a book that fits neatly into a weekly blog I write. This particular week features cookery, as I reviewed a relevant book for NetGalley. The blog features cookery from many aspects, some of which are feminist. Your book fits really well, so I have used your blurb (edited to take into account the time lag) in the blog. The book looks fascinating, and l shall do as I have been asking my friends to do about my book, request it at my library. Danielle, if you are the journalist who wrote about BP in 2011 I would very much appreciate being in touch if you have a public email address. In the meantime, congratulations on your book. I love the idea of creating a new way of looking at home economics, and shall enjoy reading it. I cannot find it on my kindle - is there an ebook version?
I just read the book and it is AMAZING. I'm a knitter, spinner, and garment sewer (sewist? sempster/seamstress? so many words) who didn't take home ec but has made a quiet history project of it and you have written THE EXACT BOOK I've been looking for! I can talk your ear off about Ellen Richards and Catherine Beecher, blah blah blah, but I didn't have any of the info about the Black home economics pioneers and experts and I knew it had to be out there somewhere. Great job!
Congratulations, Danielle! Looking forward to reading. So good to meet you when you were conducting research in Purdue University Archives. Best wishes with the book.