Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ISBN: | 1230002295367 |
Publisher: | Bay Bay Online Books | Publication: | April 27, 2018 |
Imprint: | Language: | French |
Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
ISBN: | 1230002295367 |
Publisher: | Bay Bay Online Books |
Publication: | April 27, 2018 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | French |
* Book : What Diantha Did
* Biography
* Bibliography
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- and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.
* Book : What Diantha Did
* Biography
* Bibliography
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- and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.