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Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
She is a young maidservant in the Wingate household. He is the firstborn son of the Wingates, born into nobility. Their stations in life are far apart, and so Gervase Howard conceals her feelings as her adolescent infatuation for Davis Wingate matures into a woman's love. But there is no denying the pain when Davis marries another. Driven by heartbreak, Gervase leaves the Wingate home to serve a remarkable woman by the name of Florence Nightingale....
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
23) Easy Living
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Enstad explores the complex relationship between consumer culture and political activism for late nineteenth- and twentieth-century working women. While consumerism did not make women into radicals, it helped shape their culture and their identities as both workers and political actors.
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