tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692263915552749403.post5796537268475792269..comments2024-03-18T01:17:02.398-04:00Comments on Pat Spears: Ancestor Detector: Stepping back to Nineteenth Century ChicagoPat Spearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12823338581399447865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692263915552749403.post-34430793853089240052018-08-12T17:50:19.918-04:002018-08-12T17:50:19.918-04:00Hi Paula, Wow, this is tantalizing! I would love t...Hi Paula, Wow, this is tantalizing! I would love to locate this book also. I was thinking of contacting the Newberry Library, the University of Chicago history dept, and Hull House, for starters.Pat Spearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12823338581399447865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692263915552749403.post-22675979555794708282018-06-29T18:26:15.214-04:002018-06-29T18:26:15.214-04:0019th century Chicago is what I am after, and havin...19th century Chicago is what I am after, and having Googled numerous sites about Chicago settlement houses, late 19th/early 20th century female architects, and other entries that led me down the wrong trail - I found you. In order to report to the NY Times editor of the OVERLOOKED obits (women who blazed trails up through the early 21st century but were overlooked by the obits section) I seek the story I read in a non-fiction book 50 years ago - it was a library copy that so excited me that I planned to buy a copy but, yeah, never did. I regret. My thought is you may know what book I am trying to find. The topic is female architects or possibly female designers of some sort who designed a communal kitchen in a Chicago settlement house. Or perhaps the kitchen was already intact and they fostered an idea that came to fruition. It was this: women from the tenements who worked all day in the sweatshops or similar would rotate taking turns cooking - at dawn? - so that, after work, other women could pick up a pail of stew, take it home and heat it up rather than cook from scratch. The experiment began and the permanently exhausted women were enthralled. This did not last. Men would not tolerate food that had not been cooked by "their" women but another man's wife. I know this book exists. I know it concerns early women architects and/or designers who were advocates for women. Do you have a clue about what book I have in mind? Googling got me nowhere. Oh why didn't I buy it 50 years ago when I knew the title and the names of the author(s). Thank you for any info you can provide. Paula in Boston Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00902722303533593156noreply@blogger.com