domestic service in progressive-era women’s fiction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mattis, Ann
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, literatuur, huishoudsters, werkgevers, relaties, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This publication sheds light on the relationships between women employers and their household help in the early twentieth century through their representations in literature, including women’s magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. The book focuses on the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Anzia Yezierska, and Fannie Hurst and their various depictions of the maid/mistress relationship.