What Diantha Did illustrated

By: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HTYTTG2
• ISBN13: 9798684795596
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"