{"id":557,"date":"2022-08-16T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/dev\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:49:22","slug":"fireside","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/why-build\/exhibit\/home\/fireside\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun for the Fireside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Fun for the Fireside” was a monthly column in Godey’s Lady Book and Magazine<\/em> intended to gather families around the fireplace with recreation. Here, children are encouraged to play-act homemaking by making model furniture, such as this fireplace. Fireplaces in Merion acted in a similar yet subtle way to cultivate women’s domesticity through acts of socializing and decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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J. Hannum Jones and A.E. Brown, “Fun for the Fireside,”  Godey\u2019s Lady Book and Magazine<\/em>, vol. 100, January 1880, 62-63.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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J. Hannum Jones and A.E. Brown, “Fun for the Fireside,”  Godey\u2019s Lady Book and Magazine<\/em>, vol. 100, January 1880, 62-63.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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