Katherine Hobbs

Katherine Hobbs

 

Katherine Hobbs is a project historian at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, where Glenmont and the Edison laboratory still stand today. Research for this article and an upcoming tour of Glenmont, titled “Mina’s Place of Business,” was supported by a grant from the National Park Foundation and administered by the Friends of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

Mina’s goal was to keep the home—and women—central in modern society. Building on the home economists who came before her, she sought to define women’s work as work rather than a vague, idealized calling.

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