What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781544725017 - March 16, 2017
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What Diantha Did

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 the 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 the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 16, 2017
ISBN13 9781544725017
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 166
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   231 g
Language English  

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