Excerpt from Domestic Science in Grammar Grades Beamer: A Reader
I had gone with my husband to live on a little estate of peat bog that had descended to me, all the way down from John Welsh, the Covenanter, who named a daughter of John Knox. That didn't, I am ashamed to say, make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side from all the conveniences of life, shops, and even post office.
Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only child, and brought up to very great prospects, I was sublimely ignorant of every branch of useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar and a very fair mathematician.
It behooved me in these astonishing circumstances to learn to sew. Husbands, I was shocked to find, wore their stockings into holes, and were always losing buttons, and was expected to "look to all that." Also it behooved me to learn to cook! No capable servant choosing to live at such an out of the way place, and my husband having bad digestion, which complicated my difficulties. The bread, above all, brought from Dumfries, soured on his stomach, and it was plainly my duty, as a Christian wife, to bake at home.
So I sent for Cobbett's "Cottage Economy" and fell to work at a loaf of bread.
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