What Diantha Did Annotated

By: Perkins Gilman, Charlotte

First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909 to 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- and leisure-class women from the burden of conventional domestic chores, Diantha proves to her family and community the benefits of professionalized housekeeping.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B093RX5YP1
• ISBN13: 9798745710889
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"