Download or read book So Sweet to Labor written by Norton Juster and published by Viking. This book was released on 1979 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to life the years between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century by using a sampling of articles, letters, poems and essays written by and for rural women. It describes the daily life of country women and girls. While these writings reflected the labor and hardship that characterized the lives of most of the publications' readers; yet the editorial stance of these publications continued to idealize the vision of a farmer's wife.