Project Gutenberg 2008-12-10 Public domain in the USA. 180 Jester, Annie Lash Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 Reading ease score: 62.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Carla Foust, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century" by Annie Lash Jester is a historical account written in the mid-20th century. This work explores the intricacies of domesticity and settlement during the early period of Virginia's colonization, particularly focusing on the roles and contributions of women and the establishment of stable homes. It provides a detailed examination of how domestic life contributed to the colony's survival and prosperity. The opening of the book details the foundational years of the Virginia colony, beginning with the arrival of Mrs. Lucy Forest and her maid, Ann Burras, in 1608. It describes the initial challenges of colonization, such as harsh living conditions and the necessity for settlers to adapt to a new environment. Jester contextualizes the settlement efforts within the larger motivations of wealth and expansion from England, highlighting the fundamental role of women in creating domestic stability and their management of households amidst the challenges faced by the early colonists. The narrative illustrates the development of early home structures and the food sources that became integral to Virginia's survival, setting the stage for the later flourishing of colonial life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Plantation life Virginia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 F206 Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American 280819 280654 2024-10-11T14:55:31.714700 2023-09-12T07:14:18.983904 text/html text/html 263206 2008-12-10T15:37:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 975915 2021-01-04T11:55:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 908029 2024-10-11T14:55:42.552636 application/epub+zip 911445 2024-10-11T14:55:36.473675 application/epub+zip 155825 2024-10-11T14:55:34.612661 application/epub+zip 1152215 2024-10-11T14:55:46.276623 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1117687 2024-10-11T14:55:40.953608 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 355520 2022-09-12T14:56:43.070044 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 211239 211149 2024-10-11T14:55:30.546695 2023-09-12T07:14:18.031927 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 211034 2021-01-04T11:55:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 79487 2021-01-04T11:55:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 211043 2021-01-04T11:55:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 79480 2021-01-04T11:55:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21131 2024-10-11T14:55:46.418577 application/rdf+xml 20835 2024-10-11T14:55:35.218638 image/jpeg 4431 2024-10-11T14:55:34.912672 image/jpeg 1449629 2024-10-11T14:55:31.783684 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog