Erma Bombeck, the suburban housewife

Author(s)

Susan Marie Frontczak

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

12-19-2018

Abstract

Through the second half of the 20th century, Erma Bombeck captured - and lit with humor - the daily life of a new American phenomenon: the suburban housewife. Sometime between 1910 and 1920 the majority of the places that people in the U.S. called home shifted from rural to urban. During the war years (1941-1945) millions more moved to the cities for well-paying jobs. However, a different kind of migration followed the war.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Frontczak, Susan Marie, "Erma Bombeck, the suburban housewife" (2018). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1196.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1196