PF Pattison Family
  1. Mary
  2. 1915 book
  3. 1949 memoir
  4. Full pages

Mary's books

Mary has her own shelf.

Mary Pattison should not enter only as Frank's wife or as later family memory. Her 1915 book is a public argument about household systems, and her 1949 memoir preserves a family voice that must be read with care.

Principles of Domestic Engineering scan

1915 / Mary Pattison

Principles of Domestic Engineering

This is Mary before she becomes family memory: a public writer asking how a household should work in the modern age.

Complete Internet Archive text-PDF scan downloaded locally and rendered into page images for this experience.

Colonia Yesterday scan

1949 / Mary Pattison

Colonia Yesterday

This is Mary as keeper of place and memory, writing after the world of Frank and Charles had become something to preserve.

Complete local MEHS PDF scan is present and rendered into page images for this experience.