“The nineteenth-century ideology of female domesticity suggested women were particularly physically and morally equipped to nurture...[W]hen this view was melded with the belief of the home being the “women’s sphere,” the result was a combination that gave moral support to mid-nineteenth-century middle-class suburbanization. Woman’s place was in the home, and that home was ideally in the expanding suburbs...The home...was to be a...middle landscape between city and country that had trees and greenery buy that was neither too wild nor too urban...the proper Currier and Ives family environment.” (153)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)