Diantha Bell, engaged to a struggling young storekeeper and stifled at home, shocks her family and fiancé by leaving to work as a paid housekeeper in the town of Orchardina. From that humble start she builds an enterprise of professional domestic service, cooked-food delivery and hotel management, battling gossip, prejudice and the disapproval of everyone who cannot imagine a woman earning her own way.
A witty, practical feminist novel from the author of The Yellow Wallpaper, still sharp on the economics of the home. Download the free EPUB.