Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What Diantha Did

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform May 15, 2017)
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.
ISBN
1546693025 / 9781546693024
Pages
112
Weight
7.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.3 in.

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