Domestic realism

Domestic realism normally refers to the genre of 19th-century fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women.^[1] This body of writing is also known as "sentimental fiction" or "woman's fiction". The genre is mainly reflected in the novel though short-stories and non-fiction works such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Our Country Neighbors" and The New Housekeeper's Manual written by Stowe and her sister Catharine Beecher are works of domestic realism.