What Diantha Did - 9781539572824

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 fiance 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."

• • Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Oct 17, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 164 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 153957282X
• • ISBN-13: 9781539572824