Chatelaines
Fans of the Tales of Chetzemoka will be familiar with Addie's pretty chatelaine pocket and Nurse McCoy's nursing chatelaine which (like a superhero's tool belt) seems to have a tool to handle any emergency. Here are some 19th-century pictures of chatelaines and their owners!
"McCoy supposed that either Kitty or Silas had mentioned her place in the household last time Esmerelda had called, or else the spiritualist had deduced McCoy's profession from seeing her nursing chatelaine…"
—From A Rapping At The Door
"McCoy carefully took off her nursing chatelaine so she could move about without a clacking bundle of tools announcing her position. She held the chains together to keep them quiet and softly laid the chatelaine on the marble-topped table next to the door…"
—From A Rapping At The Door
"When she went back down to the second floor she stopped at her own room and took off her hat and her shoulder wrap, then switched out her chatelaine pocket for her nursing chatelaine. She felt better with her nursing chatelaine at the ready on her waist: she always felt undressed without it…"
—From A Rapping At The Door
Chatelaine Purses
(Also called chatelaine pockets)
"When they came to the house he had to set her down so that she could get her key out of her chatelaine pocket and unlock the door…"
—From Love Will Find A Wheel
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In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing. In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into. Join their adventures in
The Tales of Chetzemoka
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