Naturally, a lot of dotty and stuffy Englishmen and women get stoned, and two biddies inevitably brew a pot of tea from the wrong leaves in a gentle, silly movie that would " peter out in triviality if not for Blethyn's gift for finding the pain and frustration behind Grace's facade of housewifely capability " ( A . O . Scott ).
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The historian Elaine Leong describes the effect of the modern title of this and similar books such as " Lady Sedley's Receipt Book " and " Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke " as " conjuring up a homey picture of the lady of the manor collecting all sorts of household information as part of her housewifely duties . " Leong cautions that while the modern editors of these books " no doubt based their titles on ownership notes inscribed in the manuscripts . . . these titles obscure the rich and complex stories of authorship and ownership connected with the texts ."
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"We were among the first members of the colony to arrive at the station of an unfinished railroad & There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, [ and ] several other [ s ] in process of erection & The streets, scarcely to be defined as such, were full of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters could suit themselves with claims, the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile some having cooking stoves in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work; all seeming happy and hopeful ."
