What Diantha Did【電子書籍】[ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ]

＜p＞This edition of ＜em＞What Diantha Did＜/em＞ makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman’s magazine ＜em＞The＜/em＞ ＜em＞Forerunner＜/em＞ in 1909?10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fianc? 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In her introduction to the novel, Charlotte J. Rich highlights Gilman’s engagement with such hotly debated Progressive Era issues as the “servant que．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る