{"product_id":"2940016456638","title":"Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003eVirginia, or the Old Dominion, as her children delight to call her, has always been famed for the style of her living. Taught by the example of her royal colonial governors, and the numerous adherents of King Charles, who brought hither in their exile the graces and luxuriousness of his brilliant court, she became noted among the colonies for the princely hospitality of her people and for the beauty and richness of their living. But when at length her great son in the House of Burgesses sounded the cry of war, and her people made haste to gird themselves for the long struggle, her daughters, not to be outdone either in services or patriotism, set about at once the inauguration of a plan of rigid retrenchment and reform in the domestic economy, while at the same time exhibiting to their sisters a noble example of devotion and self-sacrifice.\u003cbr\u003eTearing the glittering arms of King George from their sideboards, and casting them, with their costly plate and jewels, as offerings into the lap of the Continental Congress, they introduced in their homes that new style of living in which, discarding all the showy extravagance of the old, and retaining only viii its inexpensive graces, they succeeded in perfecting that system which, surviving to this day, has ever been noted for its beautiful and elegant simplicity.","brand":"Hannah Stuart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071318016240,"sku":"2940016456638","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016456638_p0.jpg?v=1763636226","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016456638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}