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.

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	17 octobre 2016
ISBN13	9781539572824
Éditeurs	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	166
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 9 mm · 231 g
Langue et grammaire	English

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