“The Scotswoman Janet Schaw took a dim… view of Southern laundry practices. Staying with her brother and sister-in-law [in Wilmington] in 1775, she praised North Carolina soap, made from ‘the finest ashes in the world’ (although she observed that rather than make soap for themselves, many housewives made do with an inferior-quality Irish soap ‘at […]
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Scotswoman sniffs at ‘worst washers of linen I ever saw’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged foul bodies, janet schaw, kathleen m brown, wilmington nc on October 26, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
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