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- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 166
- ISBN-10: 153957282X
- ISBN-13: 9781539572824
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women's "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J.
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- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 166
- ISBN-10: 153957282X
- ISBN-13: 9781539572824
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel. By assigning a cash value to women's "invisible" work, providing a means for the well-being and moral uplift of working girls, and releasing middle-class and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J.
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