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In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with ...
Written by the author of The Rosemary Touch, this is the story of three young women, second wives to rich, older men. They were at camp as teenagers when something shocking happened, and are now blackmailed by the camp director who threatens to reveal the secret which can ruin their worlds.
Part memoir and partly based on the stories of others, "Family Ties" looks at how families and family life changes, grows, and is enriched over time. With the same kind of observational humor as "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother", this tie that binds reminds readers that there are no relationships as important or as lasting as those within the family.
Wyse, Lois Vernon Katz, Lillian Popcorn, Faith Stutz, Geraldine Charatan, Deborah Lee.