{"id":1006,"date":"2025-06-28T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1006"},"modified":"2025-06-28T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:02:35","slug":"its-a-womans-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/its-a-womans-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Woman’s World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruth Stout, beloved author of Gardening Without Work<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0tackles the problem of living without (too much) work in\u00a0It’s a Woman’s World.<\/em>\u00a0As always, Ruth’s quirky, common-sense approach manages to entertain as much as it informs, and because fundamentals never change, this 1960 book is still as delightful as ever.<\/p>\n

Ruth could turn any aspect of life into an adventure. She may have been the only woman who gardened in the nude, wrote a book on happiness (<\/em>If You Would Be Happy<\/a>), and wrote another about the quirky people who came to visit Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality<\/a>. All these titles are available from Norton Creek Press.<\/p>\n

Ruth died in 1980 at the age of 96.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n

1. The Right Window
\n2. Live and Learn
\n3. For Reluctant Cooks
\n4. A Matter of Taste
\n5. Guests-Welcome and Otherwise
\n6. Once Over Lightly
\n7. Why the Whirlwind
\n8. Turning Pennies into Dollars
\n9. Making Time for Yourself
\n10. For Better-We Hope
\n11. The Hand That Rules the Cradle
\n12. Does Your Garden Grow?
\n13. To Hell with the Joneses
\n14. When Evening Comes<\/p>\n

About Ruth Stout<\/h2>\n

Ruth Stout was a beloved early advocate of organic gardening, and her book, Gardening Without Work,<\/i> and her magazine articles popularized her style “no-dig gardening” in particular and simple living in general to millions. Norton Creek Press is proud to offer her works to a new generation.<\/p>\n

Ruth was born in Kansas. Her mother was a Quaker with a rate knack for coping with her nine children. One of Ruth’s brothers, Rex Stout, became the creator of the well-known Nero Wolfe mysteries, and Ruth herself began selling stories locally at an early age.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, Ruth accompanied prohibitionist Carrie Nation on a saloon-smashing excursion (saloons were illegal in Kansas City at the time). In 1923 Ruth accompanied fellow Quakers to Russia to assist in famine relief.<\/p>\n

Ruth moved to New York City, and before her marriage to Fred Rossiter she worked at a variety of jobs-nursemaid, telephone operator, bookkeeper, secretary, office manager, owner of a Greenwich Village tearoom. After her marriage, she and her husband moved to an old farm, Poverty Hollow, in West Redding, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Ruth’s career since moving to the country was that of cook, housekeeper, gardener, lecturer, and, of course, writer. Ruth wrote several books and innumerable newspaper and magazine columns. She died in 1980 at the age of 96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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